PHP date conversion using strtotime

Question

I have a date in the ymd format. Example for 2014-05-28 I actually have: 140528.

I would like to convert it to the date(c") format. Example: 2014-05-28T00:00:00-04:00

I cannot use DateTime::createFromFormat because of my php version. So instead I tried strtotime, but with no success:

$d[14]="140528";
$deliveryDate = date('ymd', $d[14]);
$d[14] = date("c", strtotime($deliveryDate));

strtotime is not recognizing the original date format as it returns me the 1969 date.

John Conde · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-15 15:25:29Z

2

Break it up into parts and then form a valid date out of those parts. Then strtotime() will work.

$badDate = "140528";
$date = sprintf("20%s-%s-%s",
    substr($badDate, 0, 2),
    substr($badDate, 2, 2),
    substr($badDate, 4, 2)
);

echo date("c", strtotime($date));

Demo

answered May 15, 2015 at 15:25

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Clement Over a year ago

Works well, thanks! Don't like the hard coded "20" bit, but I guess it will do for the next 85 years.

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