note 90024 added to function.strtotime

Fails for non-US dates where the ordering is uncertain, such as 01/02/2003 - parses this as Feb 1st, rather than Jan 2nd. If you are parsing dates for a non-US locale, you can flip these elements of your date: $y = $_POST['date']; if (preg_match('/^\s*(\d\d?)[^\w](\d\d?)[^\w](\d{1,4}\s*$)/', $y, $match)) { $y = $match[2] . '/' . $match[1] . '/' . $match[3]; } echo date('d # m # Y', strtotime($y)); WARNING: Above only works for dates, and breaks for times: 12:30:01 will be converted to 30/12/01. This absolutely ought to be a flag to strtotime(), either as a boolean "monthfirst" flag, or a boolean "respect my locale" flag. Since it isn't, kludge is needed. ---- Server IP: 92.48.74.199 Probable Submitter: 213.123.188.5 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/90024 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90024/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90024/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90024/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90024/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90024/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90024/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90024 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/90024 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php