Strtotime with European date format

Question

I\'m trying to use strtotime to convert the following date:

07/09/2009 17:01:27

It\'s the Europe/London timezone format for 7th of September

The func

Answer 1

Here is a quick fix which should work. An alternative would be regex with named matches.

function eurototime($string)
{
    static $sorted = array(
        'tm_hour' => null,
        'tm_min' => null,
        'tm_sec' => null,
        'tm_mon' => null,
        'tm_mday' => null,
        'tm_year'  => null,
    );
    static $unsorted = array(
        'tm_mday',
        'tm_mon',
        'tm_year',
        'tm_hour',
        'tm_min',
        'tm_sec',

    );
    static $format = '%d/%d/%d %d:%d:%d';
    $parsed = sscanf($string, $format);
    $data = array_combine($unsorted, $parsed);
    $sortedData = array_merge($sorted, $data);
    $int = call_user_func_array('mktime', $sortedData);
    return $int;
}

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
echo eurototime(date('d/m/Y H:i:s')), "\n", time(),"\n";