php strtotime input format

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As strtotime() converts valid date formats to UNIX timestamp. If my input is in dd-mm-yyyy format (e.g. 09-10-2014) and mm-dd-yyyy (e.g. 10-09-2014), how to make sure that strtotime convert it to correct timestamp?

Read the Friendly Manual... if you have mm-dd-yyyy, change it to mm/dd/yyyy — Mark Baker
– Mark Baker, Commented Sep 5, 2014 at 15:14

Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-17 20:24:57Z

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You can use DateTime

<?php

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d-m-Y', '05-09-2014');
print_r( $date->getTimestamp() );

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('m-d-Y', '09-05-2014');
print_r( $date->getTimestamp() );

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Adrian Covaci · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-22 16:15:18Z

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If you know exactly input format, you could do something like this:

// for DD-MM-YYYY

$date = '09-05-2014'; // 09 May 2014
$converted = implode('-',array_reverse(explode('-', $date))); // returns 2014-05-09

// for MM-DD-YYYY , as Mark Baker mentioned above

$date = '05-09-2014'; // 09 May 2014
$converted = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(str_replace('-','/', $date))); // returns 2014-05-09

answered Jan 22, 2021 at 16:15

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