Change date time from dd/mn/yyyy to dS F, Y h: m A

Question

I' am trying to convert 16/06/2014 8:00 am to 16th June, 2014 8:00 AM

This is the format of the original date.

$date_time = '16/06/2014 8:00 am';

What does that above give me

01st January 1970 12:01 AM

This is the code in place

$date_time = date("dS F Y h:m A", strtotime($date_time ));

When `strtotime()` fails you, use [`DateTime::createFromFormat()`](http://us3.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php) Actually, you're better off with `DateTime` much of the time in PHP 5.3+ — Michael Berkowski, Mar 06 '14 at 00:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '14 at 00:43

You can use DateTime::createFromFormat():

$date_time = '16/06/2014 8:00 am';
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y g:ia', $date_time);

echo $date->format('dS F Y h:m A');

Note: you are using m here, which is a month representation. You should use i instead for the number of minutes:

dS F Y H:i A

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 06 '14 at 00:43

You just need to change / slashes with - minus

$date_time = '16/06/2014 8:00 am';
$date_time = str_replace('/', '-', $date_time);    
$date_time = date("dS F Y h:i A", strtotime($date_time )); 
                          //here change m with i for minutes, m is for months

echo $date_time;
//output 16th June 2014 08:00 AM

Working sample here

Change date time from dd/mn/yyyy to dS F, Y h: m A

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