note 74366 added to function.strtotime

strtotime() function use GNU format. You can convert date to unix timestamp by using all date formats! Use follow parse_date() function: <?php function convert_date($date, $replace_separator = FALSE) { $days = '0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]'; $months= '0?[1-9]|1[0-2]'; $year = '\d{2}|\d{4}'; $non_alpha = '[^0-9a-zA-Z]+'; return preg_replace( "/^\s*($days)($non_alpha)($months)($non_alpha)($year)/", $replace_separator === FALSE ? '$3$2$1$4$5' : '$3'.$replace_separator.'$1'.$replace_separator.'$5', $date); } function parse_date($date) { $date = str_replace("-", "/", $date); $date = str_replace(".", "/", $date); $predate = date("d.m.Y", strtotime(convert_date($date, '/'))); $reformatted = preg_replace("/^\s*([0-9]{1,2})[\/\. -]+([0-9]{1,2})[\/\. -]+([0-9]{1,4})/", "\\2/\\1/\\3", $predate); $rt_time = strtotime($reformatted); if ($rt_time<=0) return 0; else return $rt_time; } ?> Example: <?php echo parse_date("26.01.1993"); echo parse_date("01-26-1993"); echo parse_date("26-01-1993"); echo parse_date("26/01/1993"); echo parse_date("1993-01-26"); echo parse_date("01/26/1993"); // all will take unix timestamp: 727988400 // very good! ?> Use parse_date() and forget your troubles ;-) ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 89.20.97.137 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/74366 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/74366/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/74366/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/74366/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/74366/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/74366/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/74366/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/74366 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/74366 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php