Convert date string to UTC time with PHP

Question

I have the following date string

$date=\"Sat Apr 30 2011 18:47:47 GMT+0900 (Tokyo)\"

I want to convert it to UTC time

$timesta         


        

Answer 1

You should use gmdate() instead of date() (or you could check the DateTime and DateTimeZone classes in PHP 5.2 / 5.3)