Change System.DateModified format on Windows Search

Question

I\'m using Windows Indexing search together with PHP to search inside thousands of files.

I got it working by using the PHP COM class:

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Answer 1

You can convert a VT_DATE object into a UNIX timestamp with variant_date_to_timestamp and then format it with date, this should work regardless of the date format in the control panel.

$format = "Y-m-d";
$object = $recordset->Fields->Item("System.DateModified")->Value;
$timestamp = variant_date_to_timestamp($object);
echo date($format, $timestamp) . "\n";