title: Using strtotime for dates before 1970
body: <p>I have a text column in mysql and it stores a date value in the format yyyy-mm-dd.
  Now, in my php page, I use this code to parse into a date value.</p>
  
  <pre><code>date("F j, Y", strtotime($row['value']));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, I just read that strtotime() parses values only after January 1, 1970. I have lot of date values before that date. Is there a work around? I don't want to change my database structure. </p>