how to get php date format from given string

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How to get date format of given string, string contain a valid date I am try to import data from csv file, and that csv files are exported for backup but there are so many different type of date format and in some case when i try to convert string to date it throwing me an error

ex: 04/08/2010 10:22 am

some time this type of format throwing me error

Error 500: DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string

So is 04/08/2010 the 4th of August, or the 8th of April? A little bit of reading about DateTime objects in the manual might have pointed you to php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php and to php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php — Mark Baker
– Mark Baker, Commented Feb 20, 2013 at 7:50
There's hardly an automatic way to do that. DateTime already tries to identify various date formats automatically, it just fails on ones it doesn't know. You'll need to prepare a list of possible formats and probably test against them with a Regex. — deceze
– deceze ♦, Commented Feb 20, 2013 at 7:51

sectus · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-20 08:21:56Z

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You can use just strtotime

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('04/08/2010 10:22 am')); // output: 2010-04-08 10:22:00

answered Feb 20, 2013 at 8:21

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Sverri M. Olsen · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-20 08:11:36Z

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You can use the DateTime::createFromFormat() static method.

Also, you may want to do some reading:

Also, you need to use the search function (top right on the page). There are a lot of questions that deal with similar problems.

answered Feb 20, 2013 at 8:11

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Venkata Krishna · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-20 07:49:10Z

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Try this...........

           $today = date("d/m/Y g:i a");

<?php 
    $today = date("d/m/Y g:i a");
    echo $today;
?>

You will get output like this.........20/02/2013 7:53 am

For sample one see this example link

answered Feb 20, 2013 at 7:49

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Mark Baker Over a year ago

Why throw somebody who's already using DateTime objects back to using the more problematic date functions?

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