Is it possible to get UNIX time from such date 2011-02-27 02:04:46?

Question

Mktime and other functions give wrong answer for such a date like 2011-02-27 02:04:46;

[PHP Reference: Date and time functions](http://php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php) — Pekka, Apr 21 '11 at 20:15
Please use the search function before asking: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=date+to+timestamp+php — Gordon, Apr 22 '11 at 09:53

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '11 at 20:16

10

Just use the strtotime() function, or the DateTime class.

Both the two following portions of code :

echo strtotime('2011-02-27 02:04:46');

$dt = new DateTime('2011-02-27 02:04:46');
echo $dt->format('U');

Will give you the same output :

1298768686

answered Apr 21 '11 at 20:16

Pascal MARTIN

bland_dan · Answer 2 · 2011-04-21T20:23:29.070

2

Use strtotime

$time = '2011-02-27 02:04:46';
strtotime($time);

edited Apr 21 '11 at 20:23

answered Apr 21 '11 at 20:17

bland_dan

2

Why the date() call? strtotime already returns a PHP time value, which is a unix timestamp. – Marc B Apr 21 '11 at 20:18
1

my bad, just copied and pasted from a script where I'd used strtotime to convert from one time format to another (not UNIX) – bland_dan Apr 21 '11 at 20:21

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 21 '11 at 20:29

1

This will also work (if you need this to run from the unix shell):

date +%T

This will show the time like:

14:20:18

answered Apr 21 '11 at 20:29

dvanaria

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