PHP, convert many different date formats into day-month-year

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how to convert php date formats to GMT and vice versa?

In PHP, I have a string date like this:

May 21, 2012 07:23:15 GMT

or this

21 May 2012 07:23:15 GMT

I need to convert both the strings into something like this: 21-05-2012. (day-month-year)

Can PHP correctly parse both these strings into a day-month-year format?

isnt that an obvious question... read the first line of my question — Dmitry Makovetskiyd, May 21 '12 at 09:22
No, you simply state that you 'get a string such as this.' Where is it from, do you create it? What are you using? Can you format it at the point of creation rather than tidying it up afterwards? — David Thomas, May 21 '12 at 09:24
I get it as a string from a page.. using scraping.. does that help? — Dmitry Makovetskiyd, May 21 '12 at 09:25
It does, the more information you can provide leads to better, or at least more appropriate, solutions for your problem, and should better fit the context of that problem. — David Thomas, May 21 '12 at 09:28

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 22 '12 at 05:53

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Try This -

 $your_string = "21 May 2012 07:23:15 GMT";
 $dd = date("d-m-Y", strtotime($your_string));
 echo $dd;

edited May 22 '12 at 05:53

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answered May 21 '12 at 09:23

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Cool :) hope its going to be an expected answer now ;) – swapnesh May 21 '12 at 09:25

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 21 '12 at 09:22

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Have you tried the DateTime class?

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Stockholm');
$date = new DateTime("May 21, 2012 07:23:15 GMT");
print $date->format('Y-m-d');

answered May 21 '12 at 09:22

h00ligan

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no..interesting solution..I will try it – Dmitry Makovetskiyd May 21 '12 at 09:23
Added the date_default_timezone_set(), you may need that. – h00ligan May 21 '12 at 09:24
This works the same way as `strtotime()` (see the manual page for ["Compound Formats"](http://pt2.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.compound.php) for details). – rid May 21 '12 at 09:24
@Radu In most ways it does but it gives an object oriented approach to the problem, some will prefer that. – h00ligan May 21 '12 at 09:28
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@h00ligan, sure, just pointing out the fact that it uses the same logic, so as not to expect anything different. – rid May 21 '12 at 09:29

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 21 '12 at 09:17

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You could use strtotime() for this. Alternatively, if you know what format to expect, you can use strptime() to parse it, which would be preferred.

answered May 21 '12 at 09:17

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 21 '12 at 09:26

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Try this

$str_date = "May 21, 2012 07:23:15 GMT";
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('M d, Y H:i:s O', $str_date);
echo  $date->format('d-m-Y');

answered May 21 '12 at 09:26

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