FUDforum: comp.lang.php » how format one date

Home » Imported messages » comp.lang.php » how format one date

Show: Today's Messages :: Polls :: Message Navigator

Re: how format one date [message #179063 is a reply to message #179061]

Fri, 07 September 2012 22:19

Thomas 'PointedEars'
Messages: 701
Registered: October 2010

Karma:

Senior Member

bill wrote:

> On 9/7/2012 2:07 PM, Tim Streater wrote:
>> In article <1guuas2go7c0i$(dot)1aviei1ybpcod$(dot)dlg(at)40tude(dot)net>,
>> nawfer <novalidsforspam(at)alt(dot)al> wrote:
>>> Il Fri, 7 Sep 2012 13:48:29 +0000 (UTC), Salvatore ha scritto:
>>>> On 2012-09-07, nawfer <novalidsforspam(at)alt(dot)al> wrote:
>>>> > if have one of this date so
>>>> >
>>>> > Thu, 06/09/2012 - 23:50
>>>> > Thursday, 6 September, 2012 - 23:50
>>>> > Thu, 06/09/2012 - 23:50
>>>> > 06/09/2012 - 23:50
>>>> >
>>>> > how can have this >> 2012-09-06T23:50:00
>>>> >
>>>> > and finally to have the seconds 1346968200
>>>> > I'm not sure if you're asking how to *format* a date or how
>>>> > to *parse* a date. If you want to format a date, given a
>>>> > timestamp, use either the date() function or the strftime()
>>>> > function. If you want to parse a date, given a string, use
>>>> > either the strtotime() function or the strptime()
>>>> > function.
>>>
>>> if have this string
>>> "06/09/2012 - 23:50"
>>
>> Use strtotime () to convert the above into seconds.
> then use date() to convert it back to the format you want.

In this case, strptime() and strftime() should be used instead because, in
contrast to strtotime() and date(), they observe the current locale (note
the German month name above), and you get to choose the supported format
with strptime(), so there are no ambiguities with parsing.

Because in the US-American date format the month comes first (MM/DD/YYYY),
strtotime() will return the timestamp for 2012-06-09 23:50, and _not_
2012-09-06 23:50 as it was probably intended, considering today's date.
That is, if, and only if, the hyphen is removed before; else it returns
FALSE because that is not one of the formats supported by it. Tested with
PHP 5.3.10-1 (cli) (built: Feb 3 2012 10:03:01).

Both of those PHP functions are available on all platforms; strftime() since
PHP 4, strptime() since PHP 5.1.

<http://php.net/strptime>
<http://php.net/strftime>
<http://php.net/strtotime>
<http://php.net/date>

PointedEars
--
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		how format one date By: nawfer on Fri, 07 September 2012 13:28
		Re: how format one date By: Salvatore on Fri, 07 September 2012 13:48
		Re: how format one date By: nawfer on Fri, 07 September 2012 14:56
		Re: how format one date By: Salvatore on Fri, 07 September 2012 15:10
		Re: how format one date By: nawfer on Fri, 07 September 2012 15:20
		Re: how format one date By: Salvatore on Fri, 07 September 2012 15:39
		Re: how format one date By: nawfer on Thu, 13 September 2012 14:29
		Re: how format one date By: Luuk on Fri, 07 September 2012 20:05
		Re: how format one date By: Tim Streater on Fri, 07 September 2012 18:07
		Re: how format one date By: bill on Fri, 07 September 2012 19:28
		Re: how format one date By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 07 September 2012 22:19
		Re: how format one date By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Fri, 07 September 2012 22:22

Previous Topic:	Converting eps to png
Next Topic:	Never log deprecation warnings

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Fri Sep 20 20:32:32 GMT 2024

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.04627 seconds