Question

I have a GMT formatted date 15/10/2012 and when I run strtotime() on it it returns false. I’ve tried setting the default time zone, which doesn’t change anything and I’ve even tried doing the following.

$date = new DateTime($formatted);
$date->setTimezone('Europe/London');
return $date->getTimestamp();

Still no result however.

Anyone got any ideas please?

Answer 1

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $formatted);
$date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/London'));
return $date->getTimestamp();

http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php

edit: updated timezone syntax.