Strtotime with European date format

Question

I\'m trying to use strtotime to convert the following date:

07/09/2009 17:01:27

It\'s the Europe/London timezone format for 7th of September

The func

Answer 1

Providing you're not on Windows you can use strptime instead, and explicitly set the format. As OIS points out, strptime isn't available on Windows.

To convert from the split up year/month/day etc values to a unix timestamp you can pass them into mktime. Slightly fiddly, but it works.

One reason you might want to do this would be to print it in a different format using date.

From the strptime php.net page:

Example #1 strptime() example

The above example will output something similar to:

03/10/2004 15:54:19

Array
(
    [tm_sec] => 19
    [tm_min] => 54
    [tm_hour] => 15
    [tm_mday] => 3
    [tm_mon] => 9
    [tm_year] => 104
    [tm_wday] => 0
    [tm_yday] => 276
    [unparsed] =>
)