Question

EDIT

Per the comment below, here’s my attempt at splitting / combining / converting the string prior to implementing mktime…

$date1 = explode("T",'2005-03-27T00:00:00');
$date2 = explode("-", $date1[0]);
$try = mktime($time1,$time2,0,$date2[1],$date[2],$date[3]);
print $try; 

// Prints out: 951793200

Original Question:

I’ve inherited a database and would like very much to convert the bizarre way the data is stored to something more mysql-friendly…

In the meantime, I get a text string (yes… text)… That I’d like to convert to unixtime…

So, I’ll get a string that looks like this:

2005-03-27T00:00:00 03:00 AM

I’d like to convert it to:

1111885200

Dates and times always mess me up… I’ve done a number of things using strtotime and mktime, but can’t get it formatted the way I want.

Answer 1

Well, this is how I would do it.

$ex = '2005-03-27T00:00:00 03:00 AM';
$format = '%Y-%m-%dT00:00:00 %H:%M %p';
$strf = strptime($ex, $format);
$date_str = $strf['tm_mon'] + 1 . '/' . $strf['tm_mday'] . '/' . ($strf['tm_year'] + 1900) . ' ' . $strf['tm_hour'] . ':' . $strf['tm_min'] . ':00';
echo $date_str;
echo "\n";
echo strtotime($date_str);
echo "\n";
echo date('m-d-Y H:i:s', 1111885200);

But, your desired result does not seem to be correct based on the date you posted.

OUTPUT

3/27/2005 3:0:00
1111921200
03-26-2005 17:00:00