Question

I am parsing a xml, and I get the created time as: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:10:00 EST

My requirement is to convert this time into the specified time format using DateTime function before inserting it in the database.

Can anyone help me with this.

Thanks you
Zeeshan

Answer 1

1. set EST timezone

   date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
   

2. convert to epoch

   $epoch = strtotime('Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:10:00 EST');
   

3. get date/time

   echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $epoch);