Question

I’m getting an external RSS Feed Post in different website, what I noticed is that they all have a different format of Publish Date.
Some uses a formatting like this:

2012-04-09T08:23:07Z

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:25:43  0000

There are still lots of format but I was just showing you two examples.

Now, I want everything to have a uniform format, so i’m using strtotime(). Here’s my code:

$date = "2012-04-09T08:23:07Z";
date( "F d, Y", strtotime( $date ) );
/* Result: April 09, 2012 */

My problem here is the second format Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:25:43 0000

There is a 0000 at the last which makes the strtotime() act weird.

$date = "Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:25:43  0000";
 date( "F d, Y", strtotime( $date ) );
 /* Result: April 06, 0000 */

Obviously the result should be April 06,2012.

My question here is that how can I not let strtotime() act weird when it detects a format that has a 0000 at the last. Any idea how to do this? Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! 🙂

Thanks!

Answer 1

I’m pretty sure you have a formatting issue:

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:25:43  0000

Notice the two spaces before 0000? That’s not a coincidence. The original is probably this:

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:25:43 +0000

Which is generated with gmdate(DATE_RFC822). In URI’s, the + symbol often gets translated to a space. I think that’s your problem.