PHP Convert ISO date to more readable format?

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Just a simple question. How do I convert a PHP ISO time (like 2010-06-23T20:47:48-04:00) to something more readable? Is there a function already built in PHP? I've looked around but I haven't seen anything to convert times. If there's not a function, is it possible?

Thank you

you could trim the string from T or replace T with space and then trim from `-` (Z) if you need time. There is no other date more readable than ISO 8601 date format, specially if you are planning to share that date, worldwide. Everyone knows a date like `2020-10-09` means `9th Oct, 2020` but in some places of world `10/09/2020` is `10th Sep, 2020` and some other places `09th Oct, 2020` — AaA, Mar 02 '20 at 03:30

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 24 '10 at 01:27

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$format = "d M Y"; //or something else that date() accepts as a format
date_format(date_create($time), $format);

answered Jun 24 '10 at 01:27

zebediah49

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Staring me in the face the whole time. Thank you – Dylan Taylor Jun 24 '10 at 01:35

Mladen Janjetovic · Answer 2 · 2013-11-15T09:25:11.843

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Try this:

echo date( "Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("2010-06-23T20:47:48-04:00") );

Format this part "Y-m-d H:i:s" using format from this documentation http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

edited Nov 15 '13 at 09:25

answered Nov 15 '13 at 09:19

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Worth mentioning that if you need to support dates prior to 1970 then strtotime will not be the way to go. date_create uses the DateTime classes of PHP and will support older dates as well. – strandmyr Nov 26 '18 at 09:15
@strandmyr It actually works fine with older dates. `strtotime()` will return negative number. Maybe on window 32-bit or something like that it can return false, but I am not sure – Mladen Janjetovic Nov 26 '18 at 14:22

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 08 '11 at 15:19

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Sounds like you're looking for the date function: http://php.net/function.date

Possibly paired with the strtotime function: http://php.net/function.strtotime

edited Jun 08 '11 at 15:19

answered Jun 24 '10 at 01:23

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May work, but `date()` requires the timestamp to be an integer - therefore it won't work if the ISO time is already a string. – a_m0d Jun 24 '10 at 01:24

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 08 '11 at 15:18

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I think you should try strftime

http://php.net/function.strftime

edited Jun 08 '11 at 15:18

answered Jun 24 '10 at 01:28

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 08 '11 at 15:17

strptime() converts a string containing a time/date with the format passed as second argument to the function. The return value is an array containing values for day, month, year, hour, minutes, and seconds; you can use those values to obtain a string representing the date in the format you like.

strptime() is available since PHP 5.1.0, while the class DateTime is available since PHP 5.2.0.

score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Jun 07 '11 at 23:43

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echo strftime("%b %e %Y at %l:%M %p", strtotime($ios));

will do

edited Jun 07 '11 at 23:43

answered Jun 07 '11 at 21:36

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 27 '19 at 02:17

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For a short date try this:

$a_date = '2010-06-23T20:47:48-04:00';
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($a_date));

answered Jan 27 '19 at 02:17

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