php, date() not returning the right date/time

Question

The code below...

$date = "02-13-2012";
$start_time = "17:30";
$end_time = "20:00";

$start_timestamp = date("m-d-Y H:i",strtotime($date." ".$start_time));
$end_timestamp = date("m-d-Y H:i",strtotime($date." ".$end_time));

print($start_timestamp);
print($end_timestamp);

Returns...

1969-12-31 19:30:00

1969-12-31 20:30:00

Does anyone have any idea why this is not working correctly?

try this $date = "2012-02-13"; – busypeoples Feb 14 '12 at 01:58 — busypeoples, Feb 14 '12 at 01:58
good question :). I stumbled upon it once in past – Jaspreet Chahal Feb 14 '12 at 02:00 — Jaspreet Chahal, Feb 14 '12 at 02:00

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '12 at 01:57

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02-13-2012 17:30 is not a recognized date format. Either use day-month-year or year-month-day order, or custom parse the date format using, for example, DateTime::createFromFormat.

answered Feb 14 '12 at 01:57

deceze

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 14 '12 at 01:58

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your date format is not correct for strtotime function

either change is to

 $date = "13-02-2012";

or to some other valid format

answered Feb 14 '12 at 01:58

Jaspreet Chahal

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 14 '12 at 01:58

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When you format your date like xx-yy-zzz, strtotime() interprets it as a date in the normal format, not the American one, so it's dd-mm-yyyy.

answered Feb 14 '12 at 01:58

entropid

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@still month-day-year is *obviously not* normal. ;-P – deceze Feb 14 '12 at 02:13
Well, not normal related to the PHP strtotime parser. :P – entropid Feb 14 '12 at 12:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 14 '12 at 02:02

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See this. I think you have to change the date format.

$date = "02-13-2012";
$date = str_replace("-","/",$date);
$start_time = "17:30";
$end_time = "20:00";

$start_timestamp = date("m-d-Y H:i",strtotime($date." ".$start_time));
$end_timestamp = date("m-d-Y H:i",strtotime($date." ".$end_time));

print($start_timestamp);
echo "<br/>";
print($end_timestamp);

answered Feb 14 '12 at 02:02

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This worked, all I had to do was replace the `-` with `/` and it worked. Thanks for the advice. – Brook Julias Apr 10 '12 at 05:17

php, date() not returning the right date/time

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