Question

I am trying to format a date from an RSS feed using the following code:

foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) {
    $originalDate = trim($item->pubDate);
    $newDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime($originalDate));
    var_dump($newDate);
}

The format of the date is Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:08:11 UT which comes from $item->pubDate. Unfortunately this code does not work and the result are "31-12-1969" How do I get the proper date?

Answer 1

Since you don’t seem to need the time anyways, and just the date, this works for me:

$newDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime(str_replace("UT", "", $originalDate)));

PHP doesn’t seem to recognize the UT part.