Change Twitter date format in a tweet

Question

So I made a block of code using php to extract the latest tweet from twitter and this works but the date is shown as:

Fri Feb 21 09:24:06 +0000 2020

Is there a way to make this show as:

21 Feb 2020 9:24:06

I used the folowing block of code to load the data into a .txt file and I later retrieve all the data from this file:

$settings = array(
    'oauth_access_token' => "**************",
    'oauth_access_token_secret' => "**************",
    'consumer_key' => "**************",
    'consumer_secret' => "**************"
);
$url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json";
$requestMethod = "GET";
if (isset($_GET['user'])) 
{
    $user = $_GET['user'];
} 
else 
{
    $user = "User";
}
if (isset($_GET['count'])) 
{
    $count = $_GET['count'];
} 
else 
{
    $count = 1;
}
$getfield = "?screen_name=$user&count=$count&tweet_mode=extended";
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$string = json_decode($twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->performRequest(),$assoc = TRUE);
if(array_key_exists("errors", $string)) 
{
    echo "<h3>Sorry, there was a problem.</h3><p>Twitter returned the following error message:</p><p><em>".$string[errors][0]["message"]."</em></p>";exit();
}
$fp = fopen('twitterData.txt', 'w');
foreach($string as $items)
{
    $naam = $items['user']['name'];
    $snaam = $items['user']['screen_name'];
    $date = $items['created_at'];
    $tekst = $items['full_text'];
    $newTekst = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), '', $tekst);
    $Tweetstring = "<div class='Tweet'><div class='TweetUsername'><h2>". $naam."</h2></div><div class='TweetScreenname'><span>". $snaam."</span><br><span>".$date."</span></div><div class='TweetTxt'>". $newTekst."</div></div></a>";
    fwrite($fp, 'let Tweet = "'.$Tweetstring.'";');
}
fclose($fp);

I just hope someone has the answer for me and it doesn't have to be specifically PHP it can also be javascript or jQuery.

it doesn't have to be specifically PHP it can also be solved using javascript or jQuery. Whatever works best. — Kevin S, Mar 17 '20 at 09:34
Best would be PHP, however if a JS solution is acceptable please include the relevant JS code in the question so we can see the context you're working in. That being said, there is already *a lot* of resources about date formatting in [JS](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3552461/how-to-format-a-javascript-date) and [PHP](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2487921/convert-a-date-format-in-php) — Rory McCrossan, Mar 17 '20 at 09:39
Okay I'm sorry for that I'm new to this, but I've already tried a bunch of different methods but none of them worked. — Kevin S, Mar 17 '20 at 09:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '20 at 17:58

Nevermind the question i've already found the answer which goes as following:

$fp = fopen('twitterData.txt', 'w');
foreach($string as $items)
{
    $naam = $items['user']['name'];
    $snaam = $items['user']['screen_name'];
    $date = strtotime($items['created_at']) - 3600;
    $newDate = date('l d-m-Y h:i:s', $date);
    if (strpos($newDate, 'Monday') !== false) {
        $newDate2 = str_replace("Monday","ma", $newDate);
    }
    if (strpos($newDate, 'Tuesday') !== false) {
        $newDate2 = str_replace("Tuesday","di", $newDate);
    }
    if (strpos($newDate, 'Wednesday') !== false) {
        $newDate2 = str_replace("Wednesday","wo", $newDate);
    }
    if (strpos($newDate, 'Thursday') !== false) {
        $newDate2 = str_replace("Thursday","do", $newDate);
    }
    if (strpos($newDate, 'Friday') !== false) {
        $newDate2 = str_replace("Friday","vr", $newDate);
    }
    if (strpos($newDate, 'Saturday') !== false) {
        $newDate2 = str_replace("Saturday","za", $newDate);
    }
    if (strpos($newDate, 'Sunday') !== false) {
        $newDate2 = str_replace("Sunday","zo", $newDate);
    }
    $newDateFinal = substr($newDate2, 0, 19);
    $tekst = $items['full_text'];
    $newTekst = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), '', $tekst);
    $Tweetstring = "<div class='Tweet'><div class='TweetUsername'><h2>". $naam."</h2></div><div class='TweetNaam'><span>". $snaam."</span><br><span>".$newDateFinal."</span></div><div class='TweetTxt'>". $newTekst."</div></div></a>";
    fwrite($fp, 'let Tweet = "'.$Tweetstring.'";');
}
fclose($fp);

which gives the output of:

vr 21-02-2020 09:24

and that was exactly what I wanted

I'm Dutch so that's why some variable names aren't English – Kevin S Mar 17 '20 at 18:00 — Kevin S, Mar 17 '20 at 18:00

Change Twitter date format in a tweet

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