Question

My GPS device is communicating to my php web services, it sends date=311011 and time=060904 formats.

    $time=str_split($time,2);
    $date=str_split($date,2);
    $time=implode(":",$time);
    $date=implode("-",$date);

This gives me the required date and time standard notations.

• date=31-10-11
• time=06:09:04

Now, i wanna convert this date, time to timestamp. I worked with strtotime(), but the date seems to be 31-10-11, which gives strange results. Do i have to append 20 to 11 statically to make it 2011, or any solution

Answer 1

take a look at the date fortmats. if you use - as separator, php assumes it’s y-mm-dd, but your order is dd-mm-y. the easiest way would be to change the separator to . wich would then be dd.mm.y.