title: PHP strtotime incorrect conversion
body: <p>I have looked in the manuals, It is probably a conversion weirdness but I cannot figure it out. I am getting a date from the user and attempting to validate it in PHP (version 4.1) (using strtotime and checking the return value). The users will be entering the date in European format (d-m-y) but when I supply this format date to strtotime it is inconsistent eg :</p>
  
  <p>03-01-2011 is converted to the 3rd of July 2008</p>
  
  <p>I know the manual says that a hyphen or dot separated date is interpreted as European but it is not working here.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$startDate=$_GET['start'];
  echo $startDate;
  $timestamp=strtotime($startDate);
  echo $timestamp;
  echo date("d-M-Y",$timestamp);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the output from the first echo is 03-01-2011 (this is correct - the user entered value), the second echo shews the timestamp as being 1215039600 and the date echo shews 03-Jul-2008</p>