How to get the date from default date format in php

Question

I have the date in the form Sat Aug 08 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time). How can I get the date of the format "yyyy/mm/dd".

try this : - SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS"); — Ankur Tiwari, Aug 13 '15 at 05:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 13 '15 at 05:11

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Try this:

echo date('Y/m/d', strtotime('Sat Aug 08 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0530') );

answered Aug 13 '15 at 05:11

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its everytime giving 1970-01-01. I am not able to get a correct date. My date is in a variable $var. $var="Sat Aug 08 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0530" so i fetch it as $date=date('y-m-d',strtotime($var)); //1970-01-01 – akshara Aug 13 '15 at 06:25

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