I am getting a string like Wed Sep 28 2016 01:00:00 GMT+0500 (PKT) and I need to convert it to 2016-09-28 01:00:00 I have tried this
$startTime = strtotime($updatedData['start']);
echo $time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",$startTime);
but it returns me 2016-09-27 20:00:00
You could change it to use DateTime:
$startTime = new DateTime('Wed Sep 28 2016 01:00:00 GMT+0500 (PKT)');
echo $startTime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
DateTime keeps the timezone you give him.
Live Example: https://3v4l.org/UTltO
@copynpaste solution is nice and straight forward but I will still share my solution by using Carbon.
Carbon is a library included together with laravel and here is the documentation.
$carbon = new Carbon('Wed Sep 28 2016 01:00:00 GMT+0500 (PKT)');
$carbon->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo $carbon;
it will come out the result same as DateTime
2016-09-28 01:00:00
So what carbon nice is you can just add day, minute, second and etc by just a very minimal code, here is an example:
$carbon->addDays(1);
echo $carbon;
//result
2016-09-29 01:00:00
Try this:
$startTime = strtotime($updatedData['start']);
$time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",$startTime);
echo date( "Y-M-d H:i:s", strtotime( $time) + 5 * 3600 );
It returns UTC time and you do need to add 5 hours to it. Also a quick suggestion. You can use Carbon for handling the date time.
You can set the desired time zone before converting. Please see the below code as a reference.
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Bangkok");
$str = 'Wed Sep 28 2016 01:00:00 GMT+0500 (PKT)';
$startTime = strtotime($str);
echo $time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",$startTime);
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Dili"), and convert using the format. For the format use Ex:DateTime::createFromFormat('j-M-Y', '15-Feb-2009'); echo $date->format('Y-m-d');