quick date conversion help!

[jennyp]

Help! I have strings that are dates in the UK format where "25th January 2007" would be:

25012007

What is the quickest way to convert these to another date format (eg, "25th January 2007")?

Thanks!!!

[SFDonovan]

It looks like it is not stored in a timestamp value. I am currently using this to format one of my dates.

$formatdate = date("M j, Y g: i A",strtotime("$timestamp"));

Perhaps you could test some of it and see if it works for you.

[jennyp]

Oh thanks.. bad day! I hacked it :

$DatePart = substr($ThisDate,0,2);
$MonthPart = substr($ThisDate,2,2);
$YearPart = substr($ThisDate,4,4);

$UKRep = $DatePart.'/'.$MonthPart.'/'.$YearPart;
list ($day, $month, $year) = split ("/", $UKRep);
$newerdate = $month."/".$day."/".$year;

$UnixDate = strtotime($newerdate);

$NewDate = date('j F Y',$UnixDate);

I know - inelegant! :o

[NogDog]

A somewhat shorter method:

$date = '25012007';
list($day, $mon, $cen, $yr) = str_split($date, 2);
$unixTime = strtotime("$cen$yr-$mon-$day");
echo date('j F Y', $unixTime); // outputs "25 January 2007"