date format and strtotime() help

matleeds2

Hi,
I'm struggling a bit with using a date format and strtotime()

if(!empty($_GET['utime']))
{
$time = strtotime($_GET['utime']);
}

utime is supplied in the format dd/mm/yyyy but when I use strtotime() it treats it as mm/dd/yyyy....so 07/12/2011 is taken as 12th Aug rather than 7th Dec..which is the date I want to use.

I had a quick ganders through the forums but couldn't find anything specific to this.

is there any other attributes to strtotime() that will help, or a similar fucntion or a neat way of swoping my dd/mm/yyyy round before i use strtotime()

any help greatly appreciated...

Derokorian

php.net wrote:
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.

To avoid potential ambiguity, it's best to use ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) dates or DateTime::createFromFormat() when possible.

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $_GET['utime']);
$time = $date->getTimestamp;

johanafm

PHP let's you diffrentiate between american and is it brittish dates by using / for american and - for brittish. Thus 7/12/2011 is July 12, while 7-12-2011 is December 7.

matleeds2

Thanks guys that's sorted it. I've simply changed the supplied format to dd-mm-yyyy and it works....i thought i'd already tried that but i guess not.
thanks for the help.

Weedpacket

If you have that level of control then why not change the supplied format to something more standard?

matleeds2

whats more standard would you say?

Weedpacket

See Derokorian's post above.