Question

I am calling a webservice which return me back a json object.
The json object encodes the date. I am trying to find a way to convert that date to m-d-Y format in php.
Json object is {“DateOfBirth”:”/Date(387518400000-0400)/”} this date is 02-15-1982.

The webservice which I am calling is in .NET, and it converts the date to the JSON object. Not sure if this would help.

Thanks in advance

Thanks,
Tanmay

Answer 1

If there’s a chance you said 02-15-1982 but really meant 04-12-1982, then I have a solution. If not, then there’s a gap in the time of about 60 days, which can be accounted for with a bit more math.

Here’s my solution for now:

date_default_timezone_set(  'America/Denver' );

$json = json_decode( '{"DateOfBirth":"\/Date(387518400000-0400)\/"}' );
$date_string = $json -> DateOfBirth;

preg_match( '/([\d]{9})/', $date_string, $matches ); // gets just the first 9 digits in that string

echo date( 'm-d-Y', $matches[0] );

This returns: 04-12-1982