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Converting a time string to UNIX timestamp

Answer 1

+2 A:

You probably want to use http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.strptime.php (strptime) since your date is in a different format than what PHP might be expecting.

webdestroya 2010-07-27 22:04:42

+1. If you've got PHP >= 5.1 and a date format that doesn't work with strtotime, strptime is definitely an option.

Frank Farmer 2010-07-27 22:51:37

Answer 2

A:

You could also convert it to a format that strtotime() can accept, like Y/M/D:

$tmp = explode($date_str);
$converted = implode("/", $tmp[2], $tmp[1], $tmp[0]);
$timestamp = strtotime($converted);

alexantd 2010-07-27 22:05:54

If you're going to do that you might as well just `mktime(0, 0, 0, $tmp[1], $tmp[0], $tmp[2]);`

Michael Mrozek 2010-07-27 22:06:54

Answer 3

+3 A:

You're using UK date format.

Quick and dirty method:

$dateValues = explode('/','30/7/2010');
$date = mktime(0,0,0,$dateValues[1],$dateValues[0],$dateValues[2]);

Mark Baker 2010-07-27 22:07:30

This is what I came up with too -- is there really no function that takes a date format string and a textual date string and returns the timestamp? It seems like a weird gap in PHP's date interface

Michael Mrozek 2010-07-27 22:09:30

Answer 4

+5 A:

PHP >= 5.3:

$var = DateTime::createFromFormat('j/n/Y','30/7/2010')->getTimestamp();

Wrikken 2010-07-27 22:19:18

cool, that works, thank you

Alex 2010-07-27 22:28:55

Answer 5

A:

The PHP 5.3 answer was great

DateTime::createFromFormat('j/n/Y','30/7/2010')->getTimestamp();

Here is a < 5.3.0 solution

$timestamp = getUKTimestamp('30/7/2010');

function getUKTimestamp($sDate) {
    list($day, $month, $year) = explode('/', $sDate);
    return strtotime("$month/$day/$year");
}

Paul Dragoonis 2010-07-27 23:12:00

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