Splitting Datetime into a date and a time value

Question

Can someone give me a quick and dirty way to split a datetime (28-1-2011 14:32:55) into just the date (28-1-2011) and the time ( 14:32 ) or even better (2:32 PM) using PHP.

Answer 1

if your source of data is MySQL:

SELECT DATE( date_field ) AS date_part, TIME( date_field ) AS time_part ....

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_time

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date

Edit : to answer the question from comments (example):

WHERE DATE( date_field ) > '2017-01-01'

Answer 2

We can easily split DateTime(28-1-2011 14:32:55) into date and time in MySQL.

select SUBSTRING_INDEX("28-1-2011 14:32:55", " ",1) into @dateOnly;

select @dateOnly;

The output will be- 28-1-2011(Here we split the date from the DateTime)

select SUBSTRING_INDEX("28-1-2011 14:32:55", " ",-1) into @timeOnly;

select @timeOnly;

The output will be- 14:32:55(Here we split the time from the DateTime)

We can covert the time to am and pm format also

select SUBSTRING_INDEX("28-1-2011 14:32:55", " ",-1) into @timeOnly;

SELECT TIME_FORMAT(@timeOnly, "%h %i %s %p")into @time;

select @time;

The time format will become 02 32 55 PM

Answer 3

One simple instruction will do the trick

explode will transform datetime to an array

and list will sort the datetime array into its needed values

$datetime = "28-1-2011 14:32:55";
list($date, $time)=explode(' ', $datetime);

// check the result
echo "date:". $date;
echo "<br>time:". $time;

// further more you can easily split the date into 
// year month and day 
list($year, $month, $day)=explode('-', $date); 

Answer 4

if you want to parse in the date from your Mysql and you want to remove time then you can use this function

$date1=date("Y-m-d",strtotime('$your database field'))

Answer 5

If you're using PHP > 5.2:

$myvalue = '28-1-2011 14:32:55';

$datetime = new DateTime($myvalue);

$date = $datetime->format('Y-m-d');
$time = $datetime->format('H:i:s');

Prior to PHP 5.2 mhitza gave a good answer.

Answer 6

In php you can use the date and strtotime functions for easy extraction.

$datetime = "28-1-2011 14:32:55";
$date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($datetime));
$time = date('H:i:s', strtotime($datetime));