Question

In PHP, how can I convert a date/time string in the format 20:13-02-05T13:45:17-0500 to a valid MySQL datetime so I can store it?

So far I’ve tried

$date_id = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($date_id));

Answer 1

// convert non-standard year format 20:13 to 2013
$date = preg_replace ('/^(\d{2}):(\d{2})/', '$1$2', $date_id);

$timestamp = strtotime ($date);
echo date ('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp);