Printing A MongoDB Date From PHP

Question

How in PHP do I get the regular timestamp format out of a MongoDB date?

Assume I have:

$my_date;
print_r($my_date);
         


        

Answer 1

Use MongoDB\BSON\UTCDateTime MongoDate is deprecated

$mongoDate = new \MongoDB\BSON\UTCDateTime(strtotime('2020-10-01 18:30:00'));