I am of of the understanding that due to the nature that PHP represents dates using milliseconds, you cannot represent dates past 2038. I have a problem where I want to calculate dates far in the future. Thousands of years away.
Obviously I cannot use the php date function to represent this date because of the limit, however, I have something on my side... All I want to do is store the year, month and day. I do not care for the hour, minute, seconds and milliseconds.
Am I correct in thinking that without including this additional information I should be able to calculate a lot further into the future because I am willing to discard a lot of information. Is this any library that currently does this? If not does any have any advice on how to approach this problem?
You can alternatively use the DateTime class, which internally represents the time components independently. Thus it is not susceptible to the 2038 limitation (unless you use ::getTimestamp).