php convert date formats

Question

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Getting time and date from timestamp with php

I am trying to convert this date format:

09/14/2012 10:11

into this other standard timestamp format:

2012-09-14 09:44:54

What is the most efficient way of doing it?

Answer 1

You can use PHP's date and strtotime functions:

$date = '09/14/2012 10:11';
$formatted = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($date));

Answer 2

You can use DateTime object

$date = DateTime($myDate);

or your custom input format with createFromFormat

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/y H:i:s', $myDate);

format Will make your output

$result = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Answer 3

date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('09/14/2012 10:11'));

Though it's going to be hard to change the time.

Answer 4

Convert first into timestamp with strtotime and convert timestamp into date with date.

$outputDate = date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime( $inputDate ));