PHP5 Date problem

is there a special way of handling date in PHP5?

in PHP4.4.1, if i have this 03/17/2004 and format it with the strtotime() function, it outputs something like Monday, March 17, 2004 but when i switched to PHP5 the same date format will output some date in 1969.

pls note that date format is mm/dd/yyyy

what do i do?

Works fine for me:
http://webloc.windmuehlgasse.getdesigned.at/test.php

Code:

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echo date('l dS F Y h:i:s A', strtotime('03/17/2004'));

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PHP 5.1.4