Date convert showing wrongly

Question

I like to convert a date format dd/mm/yyyy to another format in PHP.

My Code:

$date = '29/01/2018';
echo date('l jS F Y', strtotime($date));

When I run the above code, it's showing me some wrong date:

Thursday 1st January 1970

Am I doing anything wrong?

this happen because your $date have unknown format for strtotime — plonknimbuzz, Jan 30 '18 at 10:34
Same problem as in this other recent question, same solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48517562/1427878 — CBroe, Jan 30 '18 at 10:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 30 '18 at 10:39

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You could also use the DateTime objects to help you converting dates. You can "create a datetime object from an specified format" and convert it.

$date = "29/01/2018";
$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat("d/m/Y", $date);

echo $dt->format("l jS F Y");

answered Jan 30 '18 at 10:39

Felipe G.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '18 at 10:42

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signifies American M/D/Y formatting

<?php

$date = '01/29/2018';
echo date('l jS F Y', strtotime($date));

output

Monday 29th January 2018

answered Jan 30 '18 at 10:42

Ganesh Kandu

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