PayPals IPN sends dates in this format 08:29:40 Aug 06, 2012 PDT When I

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Asked: June 9, 20262026-06-09T03:30:39+00:00 2026-06-09T03:30:39+00:00

PayPals IPN sends dates in this format 08:29:40 Aug 06, 2012 PDT

When I run it through strtotime() I get this in response 1344266980

When this goes through date() I get 2012-08-40 16:29:40.

What’s happening and how can I fix it.

The timezone is set in PHP to Europe/London.

Thanks.

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-09T03:30:42+00:00

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Your date format string must be wrong. Are you by any chance calling date like so:

date("Y-m-s H:i:s",$time)

If so, it should be Y-m-d – quite possibly a typo.

Reason I say this is because it’s simply impossible for date() to return 40 for the day number.

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