if you have an ambiguous date like "05/04/2014" (which is dd/mm/yyyy but just by looking at it could be month first too), how can you convert it to a PHP unix timestamp?
It looks like https://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php is close to what I want, but there is no way to specify the date format as being day first?
xdazz's answer is almost correct, but you will absorb the current time if you do that without removing it explicitly.
<?
$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat("m/d/Y", "05/04/2014");
$dt->setTime(0,0,0); # remove current time.
echo $dt->getTimestamp();
?>
In understand why we need line 2, replace line 3 with
var_dump($dt);
Then, delete line 2, and observe that there is a time in addition to the desired date.
05/04/2014 + the number of seconds since the beginning of today on the clock in your current system.you can use PHP fucntion date_format:
$date = date_create('2000-01-01');
echo date_format($date, 'm-d-Y H:i:s');
See DateTime::createFromFormat and DateTime::getTimestamp:
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', '05/04/2014');
echo $date->getTimestamp();
