Re: Bilingual strtotime()

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 11:24 +0100, Peter Lind wrote: > On Feb 6, 2011 11:16 AM, "Per Jessen" <per@computer.org> wrote: > > > > Alexis wrote: > > > > > I was wondering if there was a way to use the strtotime() function > > > when the months are in one or the other of the above two languages? > > > > Ah, I misread this earlier - strtotime(), not strftime(). You're > > talking about transforming from text to a locale()-neutral format. I > > don't think strtotime() is locale-sensitive - according to the manual: > > > > "The function [strtotime] expects to be given a string containing an > > English date format" > > > > > > > > Strtotime can read a number of formats, but does (from experience) have > problems with some. It won't work with textual dates in anything but > English, far as I know. > > Regards > Peter Is there an example of the different date formats so that we can see what we're working with here? It sounds like it might require a little manual intervention first (str_replace() maybe) in order for this to work. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk