Re: newbie date time question

On 23/06/11 10:04 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote:

On 06/22/2011 06:54 PM, David Nicholls wrote:

I'm late to the party, but strtotime works great, though you need to give it what it expects: $ts = strtotime(str_replace('/', '-', $date));

Thanks, Shawn, that's a bit more elegant! I'll give it a go. I didn't know how to do the str_relace bit. Thanks

The deal is that if you use the / then strtotime interprets it as m/d/y and if you use - it interprets it as d-m-y.

Yes, I knew the '-' format would work, I just didn't know quite how to convert the '/' to '-'. A very simple and clean solution. The final form is: function read_data($filename) {

    $f = fopen($filename, 'r');
    while ($d = fgetcsv($f)) {
    $ts = strtotime(str_replace('/','-',$d[0]));
    $data[] = array($ts, $d[1]);
    }
    fclose($f);
    return $data;

} DN