Question

what is the best way to take a UTC timestamp (integer) and parse it for only the year, month, and day in PHP? Thanks

Answer 1

Use the PHP date() function.

<?php
$timestamp = strtotime("2011-9-12 05:48:00");
$year = date('Y', $timestamp);
$month = date('m', $timestamp);
$day = date('d', $timestamp);
$newTimestamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);