Question

Ok so im trying to display a date that i got from a database

Here’s what i can display without any formatting: 2012-11-21 19:00:00

what im trying to display is: 2012-11-21 at 19:00:00

below is the code

$expiryDate = date('Y/m/d', $data[0]->dinExpiry);
$expiryTime = date('H:i', $data[0]->dinExpiry);

And this is the error im getting;

Also the date that it displays is wrong

Thanks in advance for the help

Answer 1

Easy solution

You say that you can display 2012-11-21 19:00:00 without any formatting.

So if you can display an arbitrary $date as 2012-11-21 19:00:00, why not just substring it:

$dateToDisplay = substr($date, 0, 11).'at '.substr($date, 11, 8);

and show $dateToDisplay as 2012-11-21 at 19:00:00.

A little more…

It’s tricky to answer this without knowing the output of $data[0]->dinExpiry. (I’ll assume it gives you a variable called $date).

As @Marc B says, the fact that you’re getting 1970 out of it shows that it’s not a valid timestamp (hint: it’s a string), so it’s evaluated to zero seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).

You can convert it to a valid timestamp like so:

$expiryDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));

Or to match your example:

$expiryDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($data[0]->dinExpiry));
$expiryTime = date('H:i', strtotime($data[0]->dinExpiry));