Question

I currently have a date in the format

20/10/2000 2:2:02

I need this date to be in “Linux Time” so that I can use it with other functions.

Unfortunately, I cannot change the format the date is saved as.

How can I convert this to Linux Time?

Answer 1

The PHP function “strtotime” takes a date in a string format (exactly what you have in the database) and converts it to epoch time (which you’ve referred to as linux time)

An example

<?php 
$time = '20-10-2000 2:2:02';
var_dump(strtotime($time));

Outputs

int(972003722)

strtotime() uses american dates (MM/DD/YY) if you use /’s and English dates (DD/MM/YY) if you use dashes – so for you you’d need

<?php 
$time = str_replace('/', '-', '20/10/2000 2:2:02');
var_dump(strtotime($time));