PHP date format /Date(1365004652303-0500)/

Question

I am calling an API from where I am getting date /Date(1365004652303-0500)/, I don\'t understand what format this is. How is this date format called? I was not

Answer 1

Try this out:

var_dump(date('Y-m-d H:i:s', '1365004652303'/1000));
$str = '/Date(1365004652303-0500)/';

$match = preg_match('/\/Date\((\d+)([-+])(\d+)\)\//', $str, $date);

$timestamp = $date[1]/1000;
$operator = $date[2];
$hours = $date[3]*36; // Get the seconds

$datetime = new DateTime();

$datetime->setTimestamp($timestamp);
$datetime->modify($operator . $hours . ' seconds');
var_dump($datetime->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

Returns:

string(19) "2013-04-03 17:57:32"
string(19) "2013-04-03 12:57:32"