note 90024 modified in function.strtotime by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:33:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 90024 modified in function.strtotime by danbrown | ||
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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:
<?php
$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.
--was--
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.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php