Parsing Dates with PHP

Question

i am trying to write a program but i have no idea what to with parsing a date in this format into into a date stamp

Jan 15 2005 12:00AM

i do not care about the 12:00AM as all the records have that 12:00AM appended to them.

Stiropor · Accepted Answer · 2009-03-01 01:33:07Z

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Use strtotime() to convert the date to unix timestamp. You can also use this timestamp with date() function to format it in any way you want.

answered Mar 1, 2009 at 1:33

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Beep beep · Accepted Answer · 2009-03-01 01:32:58Z

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Use the strtotime() function ... e.g.: $new_date = strtotime("Jan 15 2005 12:00AM");

answered Mar 1, 2009 at 1:32

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John Conde · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-29 03:28:59Z

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A newer way to do this as of PHP 5.2 is to use the DateTime class:

$datetime = new DateTime("Jan 15 2005 12:00AM");
echo $datetime->format('Y-m-d');

answered Jan 29, 2013 at 3:28

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