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Using the strtotime() function combined with date() you can parse different English text descriptions to dates: // Gets the current date echo date("m/d/Y", strtotime("now")), "\n"; // prints the current date echo date("m/d/Y", strtotime("10 September 2...

The Basics The simplist way to convert one date format into another is to use strtotime() with date(). strtotime() will convert the date into a Unix Timestamp. That Unix Timestamp can then be passed to date() to convert it to the new format. $timestamp = strtotime('2008-07-01T22:35:17.02'); $new_...

We can use Predefined Constants for Date format in date() instead of the conventional date format strings since PHP 5.1.0. Predefined Date Format Constants Available DATE_ATOM - Atom (2016-07-22T14:50:01+00:00) DATE_COOKIE - HTTP Cookies (Friday, 22-Jul-16 14:50:01 UTC) DATE_RSS - RSS (Fri, 22...

The most feasible way is to use, the DateTime class. An example: <?php // Create a date time object, which has the value of ~ two years ago $twoYearsAgo = new DateTime("2014-01-18 20:05:56"); // Create a date time object, which has the value of ~ now $now = new DateTime("2016...