Converting separate month, day and year values into a timestamp

Question

I have a month value (1-12), day value (1-31), and a year value (2010,2011,2012). I also have a hour value and a minute value.

How can I give this to strtotime()

Answer 1

Is strtotime the best tool for this job? What about mktime()?

$time = mktime($hour, $minute, 0, $month, $day, $year);