Php Datetime convert to RFC 3339 string date to datetime type

Question

I need a datetime as RFC3339 its for an api request from their documentation

parameter type:datetime

format : RFC3339

example: 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is my code for convert datetime to RFC3339

$datetime= date("c", strtotime("2014-03-10 05:40:00"));

it gives 2014-03-10T05:40:00+01:00 ,but i will get error message from the api it says wrong date parameter

var_dump($datetime) gives type as string but i need the type as datetime so how can i convert RFC339 string date to datetime?

try `$datetime= date("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z", strtotime("2014-03-10 05:40:00"));` — Chetan Ameta, Jun 27 '16 at 05:35
check this and send this to your API and check what happen:- https://eval.in/596033 — Alive to die - Anant, Jun 27 '16 at 05:49

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '16 at 06:17

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Php has predefined constants for most formats. You can simply use

date(DATE_RFC3339);

or

date(DATE_ATOM);

date('c') is for a different format ISO 8601.

Also, there is no "datetime" type in php. It's always going to return a string.

answered Jun 27 '16 at 06:17

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