Format a date for PHP

Question

I have a date:

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:19:10 GMT

How can I convert that to this format:

date('Y-m-d H:i:s')

I have found something like this:

$time = strtotime('10/16/2003');

$newformat = date('Y-m-d',$time);

But how do I convert 'Mar' to '03', so I can use that?

Read [`DateTime::createFromFormat`](http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php) — Shankar Narayana Damodaran, Apr 06 '14 at 14:30
If your date format is *not* consistent: Use [`DateTime::createFromFormat()`](http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php) to parse the date string and create a DateTime object. And then format it with [`DateTime::format()`](http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php). The list of formats can be found in the [documentation here](http://php.net/date). — Amal Murali, Apr 06 '14 at 14:32
strtotime() is very flexible; have you tried just giving it your current string? — IMSoP, Apr 06 '14 at 14:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 06 '14 at 14:32

1

No need, PHP's strtotime understands month names.

C:\Users\Niet>php
<?php
var_dump(date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime('Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:19:10 GMT')));
^Z

string(19) "2014-03-31 12:19:10"

answered Apr 06 '14 at 14:32

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '14 at 14:32

1

How about using DateTime

$date = new DateTime("Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:19:10 GMT");

echo $date->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");

answered Apr 06 '14 at 14:32

Abhik Chakraborty

Jakub Matczak · Answer 3 · 2014-04-06T14:50:29.037

1

strtotime does the trick here too.

This code:

$date = 'Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:19:10 GMT';
echo $date;
$time = strtotime('Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:19:10 GMT');
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $time);

will output this:

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:19:10 GMT
2014-03-31 14:19:10

Note that your timezone is important here too. I'm in GMT+2 timezone, so final hour is 14 instead of 12.

edited Apr 06 '14 at 14:50

answered Apr 06 '14 at 14:36

Jakub Matczak

3 Answers3