# variant_date_to_timestamp

(PHP 5)

variant_date_to_timestamp — Converts a variant date/time value to Unix timestamp

### Description

int variant_date_to_timestamp ( variant `$variant` )

Converts `variant` from a `VT_DATE` (or similar) value into a Unix timestamp. This allows easier interopability between the Unix-ish parts of PHP and COM.

See also variant_date_from_timestamp() for the inverse of this operation, date(), strftime().