Strtotime doesn t work with dd mm YYYY format

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I really like the strtotime   function  but the user manual doesn t give a complete description of the supported date formats  strtotime  dd mm YYYY   doesn t work  it works only with mm dd YYYY format   If I have date in dd mm YYYY format  how can I convert it to YYYY-mm-dd  I can do it by using explode   function  but I think there are better solutions

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I haven t found a better solution  You can use explode    preg match all    etc   I have a static helper function like this  class Date        public static function ausStrToTime  str             dateTokens   explode       str           return strtotime  dateTokens 1           dateTokens 0           dateTokens 2                 There is probably a better name for that  but I use ausStrToTime   because it works with Australian dates  which I often deal with  being an Australian   A better name would probably be the standardised name  but I m not sure what that is

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This the solution i m using even if the leading zero are there    lt  php   date    05 05 2017     date   str replace       -    date     date   date  Y-m-d   strtotime  date      echo  date    gt

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I tried to convert ddmmyy format to date  Y-m-d  format but was not working when I directly pass ddmmyy  date  dmy    then realized it has to be in yyyy-mm-dd format so  used substring to organize    strParam    20  substr   GET  date    4  2   -  substr   GET  date    2  2   -  substr   GET  date    0  2       then passed to date  Y-m-d  strtotime  strParam     it worked

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You can parse dates from a custom format  as of PHP 5 3  with DateTime  createFromFormat   timestamp   DateTime  createFromFormat   d m Y    23 05 2010  - gt getTimestamp       Aside  The   is used to reset non-specified values to the Unix timestamp  ie  the time will be midnight      If you do not want to  or cannot  use PHP 5 3  then a full list of available date time formats which strtotime accepts is listed on the Date Formats manual page  That page more thoroughly describes the fact that m d Y is inferred over d m Y  but you can  as mentioned in the answers here  use d-m-Y  d m Y or d tm tY      In the past  I ve also resorted to the quicky str replace mentioned in another answer  as well as self-parsing the date string into another format like   subject      23 05 2010    formatted   vsprintf   3 04d  2 02d  1 02d   sscanf  subject   02d  02d  04d      timestamp   strtotime  formatted

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fastest should probably be  false      date      date preg replace    0-2  2   0-2  2   0-2  2      3- 2- 1   date     this will return false if the format does not look like the proper one  but it wont-check wether the date is valid

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Simple as this   date  Y-m-d H i s   strtotime  str replace       -    from date

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date  d F Y  strtotime  a- gt dates       alternative use laravel  Carbon Carbon  parse  a- gt dates - gt format  d F Y

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This workaround is simpler and more elegant than explode    my date   str replace            my date    my date   strtotime  my date    my date   date  Y-m-d    my date     You don t have to know what format you re getting the date in  but if it comes with slashes they are replaced with full stops and it is treated as European by strtotime

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Here is the simplified solution    date    25 05 2010    date   str replace       -    date   echo date  Y-m-d   strtotime  date      Result   2010-05-25   The strtotime documentation reads      Dates in the m d y or d-m-y formats are disambiguated by looking at the separator between the various components  if the separator is a slash      then the American m d y is assumed  whereas if the separator is a dash  -  or a dot      then the European d-m-y format is assumed

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Are you getting this value from a database  If so  consider formatting it in the database  use date format in mysql  for example   If not  exploding the value may be the best bet  since strtotime just doesn t seem to appreciate dd mm yyyy values

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If nothing worked  try this   date    25 05 2010     dd mm YYYY  dateAr   explode         date    dateAr 2   -   dateAr 1   -   dateAr 0     YYYY-mm-dd

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srchDate   date format date create from format  d m Y    srchDate    Y m d     This will work for you  You convert the String into a custom date format where you can specify to PHP what the original format of the String is that had been given to it  Now that it is a date format  you can convert it to PHP s default date format  which is the same that is used by MySQL

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The simplest solution is this    date       07 28 2010    newdate   date  Y-m-d   strtotime  date

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If you know it s in dd mm YYYY  you can do        regex        d  1 2      d  1 2      d  2 4           match   array        if  preg match  regex   date   match             if  strlen  match 3      2                 match 3     20     match 3                     return mktime 0  0  0   match 2    match 1    match 3              return strtotime  date     It will match dates in the form d m YY or dd mm YYYY  or any combination of the two        If you want to support more separators than just    you can change the regex to        regex        d  1 2    -    d  1 2    -    d  2 4        And then add any characters you want into the   -  bit  Note  the - character needs to be last

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This is a good solution to many problems   function datetotime   date   format    YYYY-MM-DD          if   format     YYYY-MM-DD   list  year   month   day    explode  -    date       if   format     YYYY MM DD   list  year   month   day    explode       date       if   format     YYYY MM DD   list  year   month   day    explode       date        if   format     DD-MM-YYYY   list  day   month   year    explode  -    date       if   format     DD MM YYYY   list  day   month   year    explode       date       if   format     DD MM YYYY   list  day   month   year    explode       date        if   format     MM-DD-YYYY   list  month   day   year    explode  -    date       if   format     MM DD YYYY   list  month   day   year    explode       date       if   format     MM DD YYYY   list  month   day   year    explode       date        return mktime 0  0  0   month   day   year

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date info    20 02 2019   echo date  Y-m-d   strtotime str replace       -    date info

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From the STRTOTIME writeup Note   Dates in the m d y or d-m-y formats are disambiguated by looking at the separator between the various components  if the separator is a slash      then the American m d y is assumed  whereas if the separator is a dash  -  or a dot      then the European d-m-y format is assumed    It is as simple as that

[php] Strtotime() doesn't work with dd/mm/YYYY format

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