Converting date to this format

Question

I have a date in this format:

   24-12-2010 // DAY - MONTH - YEAR

I need to get it in this format:

   1995-12-31T23:59:59.999Z // The Z is for the TimeZone I think.

Check this link out:

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/schema/DateField.html

The above link is the way I need the date.

I am using PHP now, so this needs to be with PHP. How can I convert these dates the easiest way?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use the DateTime class

$dateTime = new DateTime();
$dateTime.setDate(24, 12, 2010);

$output = $dateTime.format(DateTime::W3C);

// Output now is your date in W3C format.

Answer 2

That is an ISO8601 format date; the following is what you want.

gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z', strtotime($date_value));

Answer 3

use the date ( string $format [, int $timestamp ] ) function of php! In second paramter use http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php to get the timestamp from strings

Answer 4

$date = strtotime('24-12-2010');
$new_date = gmDate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s.z\Z",$date);