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Asked: 2026-05-17T02:24:44+00:00

I’m having issues trying to parse a datetime field that I am returning in

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I’m having issues trying to parse a datetime field that I am returning in an SQL query. I was initially getting errors about it not being able to display it as a string but added the format part below and it at least displayed.

<td>".$frontpageresultarray['SubmitDate']->format(DATE_RSS)."</td>

If I do that, it works but I don’t get the format I want. I need really DD MM YY HH,MM and I have now idea how to go about it. I need to be able to do calculations on the date later in the script so I can’t really just make it a string. Any help would be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team
    $dateString = $frontpageresultarray['SubmitDate']->format(DATE_RSS);
if($dateObject = new DateTime($dateString)){
// dateString was accepted
// now do something like $dateObject->diff($otherDateObject); to calculate the difference between the $dateObject and $otherDateObject

}else{
// date couldn't be converted
// refere to [date formats][1] for possible formats to use with DateTime
}

    another approcha would be to use 

    $timestamp = strtotime(string $dateString);
$timestamp2 = strtotime(string $otherDateString);
$difference_in_seconds = $timestamp - $timestamp2;

$time_converted = date("d.m.Y",strtotime($dateString)); //takes the date in $time reads it converts it to unix timestamp and converts this timestamp via date back to string
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