Re: newbie date time question

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On 06/22/2011 09:05 AM, David Nicholls wrote:
> I'm trying to convert a date and time string using strtotime()
> 
> The date and time strings are the first entry in each line in a csv file
> in the form:
> 
> 22/06/2011 9:47:20 PM, data1, data2,...
> 
> I've been trying to use the following approach, without success:
> 
> function read_data($filename)
> {
>     $f = fopen($filename, 'r');
>     while ($d = fgetcsv($f)) {
> 
>         $format = 'd/m/Y h:i:s';
>         $dt = DateTime::createFromFormat($format, $d[0]);
> 
>         $data[] = array(strtotime($dt), $d[1]); //convert date/time
>     }
>     fclose($f);
>     return $data;
> }
> 
> Obviously I'm not getting the $format line right, as the resulting $dt
> values are empty.  (I have previously used this reading process
> successfully with better behaved date and time strings).
> 
> Advice appreciated.
> 
> DN

I'm late to the party, but strtotime works great, though you need to
give it what it expects:

$ts = strtotime(str_replace('/', '-', $date));

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Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com

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