Question

I have a column in my table of type datetime. I want to display them in a particular format, so I tried using this:

echo date( 'm/d/Y - g:h A', strtotime($dateFromMySQL) );

…which just messes everything up, completely.

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If I simply do echo $dateFromMySQL; (in a loop), I get this:

2011-09-10 01:03:04
2011-09-10 00:52:47
2011-09-10 00:40:26
and so on…

…which is correct.

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If I do echo strtotime($dateFromMySQL);, I get this:

1315630984
1315630367
1315629626
and so on…

…which might be correct. I wouldn’t know.

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However, when I do echo date( 'm/d/Y - g:h:s A', strtotime($dateFromMySQL) );, I get this:

09/10/2011 – 1:01:04 AM
09/10/2011 – 12:12:47 AM
09/10/2011 – 12:12:26 AM
and so on…

…which is obviously wrong.

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So, my question is, what am I doing wrong?
Am I somehow not using strtotime and date correctly?

Answer 1

I think you’re looking for m/d/Y - g:i:s A.

h – hour
i – minutes