Question

I’m trying to convert the following XML into a Time:

 <time hour="18" minute="05" timezone="Eastern" utc-hour="-4" utc-minute="00" /> 

I’m parsing the XML using SimpleXML, and storing that in a class. I also tried printing out the following:

print strtotime($x->time->attributes()->hour . ":" . $x->time->attributes()->minute) . "<br>\n";

The results I got from that print looked something like this:

1249254300

I guess the result I’m expecting would be either 18:05 or 6:05 PM

Is there any way I can get it to convert to the style I’m expecting? Also, if I were to add the timezone onto the end is there any way for it to figure that out?

Answer 1

I would advise against using strtotime here. Instead try mktime.

$time=mktime($x->time->attributes()->hour,$x->time->attributes()->minute,0,0,0,0)

Also you need to format the time stamp (what you printed out was the unix representation). You can do this with the date function.

date("H:i", $time);