Excel date conversion using PHP Excel

Question

i am reading date from excel which is in this format 12/5/2012 day/month/year using this code to read . using PHP EXCEL

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Answer 1

It appears your variable is a string, or is expecting a US format date.
use 'DateTime::createFromFormat' to cast the date into an actual date format

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/y', $value['A']);
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');