Question

I am completely new to php and am wondering how I could go about converting this string :

Tue Jan 17 09:17:15 CST 2012

into a format that would fit into a MySQL datetime format (24 hour) of

01-17-2009 09:17:15

I have found the MySQL function FROM_UNIXTIME() that is said to convert from a PHP Timestamp to MySQL DateTime. My problem is getting that original string to the correct PHP Timestamp format.

Answer 1

A quick try:

$dt = 'Tue Jan 17 09:17:15 CST 2012';
$ts = strtotime( $dt );

echo date('Y-m-d G:i:s', $ts);

outputs: 2012-01-17 16:17:15

The time difference comes from the timezone. My server is on UTC+1 and CST is UTC-6