PHP's strtotime() in Java

Question

strtotime() in PHP can do the following transformations:

Inputs:

strtotime(’2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00′);
strtotime(’Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200′);
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Answer 1

As far as I know, nothing like this exists. You would have to hack one together yourself. However, it might not be necessary. Try storing the dates as timestamps and just doing the simple math. I understand this isn't as clean as you might like. But it would work.