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

You can provide it to function strtotime() in many ways, as mentioned in documentation. Some examples include:

$your_time = strtotime('12/31/2011 9:59');
$your_time = strtotime('2011-12-31 9:59');
$your_time = strtotime('December 31, 2011 9:59');

etc. It really is very flexible.

You can find the list of valid formats in the documentation, and that is (from the "Compound Formats" list in the mentioned documentation) for example:

• 10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700,
• 2008:08:07 18:11:31,
• 2008-08-07 18:11:31,
• 2008-07-01T22:35:17.02,
• 2008-07-01T22:35:17.03+08:00,
• 20080701T22:38:07,
• 20080701T9:38:07,
• 20080701t223807,
• 20080701T093807,
• 2008-7-1T9:3:37,

(this is really copy of the documentation)