title: Accessing dates in PHP beyond 2038
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>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.  </p>
  
  <p>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?</p>