Date Format - Mon Jul 28 04:16:22 +0000 2008 - What is this?

[JSHINER]

Mon Jul 28 04:16:22 +0000 2008

 

What is this date format and how can I get it to display different ways?

 

Like say: "Monday, July 28, 2008 at 4:16 pm"

[Nhoj]

got any code we can take a look at? Maybe some code that is used to display the date.

[JSHINER]

It's from the Twitter API - I just echo $date;

[Tandem]

Check out the date function on php.net, there's a table of different formats.

 

date("jS M", time())

 

for example would return "28th Jul".

[JSHINER]

I know about the date function, however I need what I have to be recognized as a standard date format.

[obsidian]

That isn't really a defined code format at all, but you may be able to parse it (although, the time provided would be 4:15am). Try something like this:

<?php
$ts = 'Mon Jul 28 04:16:22 +0000 2008';
if (preg_match('|^([a-z]{3})\s([a-z]{3})\s(\d+)\s(\d+\:\d+\:\d+)\s\+\d+\s(\d{4})$|i', $ts, $match))
{
  $str = "$match[1] $match[2] $match[3], $match[5] $match[4]";
  echo date('l, F j, Y \a\t g:i a', strtotime($str));
}
?>

 

Hope this helps.

[revraz]

How is that, since it isn't a "standard" date format.  Put it into an array and then make it a format.  Explode it on the spaces.

[JSHINER]

That is displaying the time four hours ahead (5:38pm instead of 1:38pm) - how can I fix that?

[wildteen88]

Where are you running the code from? From your website? If so, the server your site is hosted on is most probably in a different timezone than you. The date/time PHP outputs is in relation to the servers timezone.

[corbin]

 

 

To reformat the date they gave you just do:

 

$date = "Mon Jul 28 04:16:22 +0000 2008";
echo date(<params>, strtotime($date));

 

That doesn't appear to be a standard date format, but I bet strtotime can still parse it.

[JSHINER]

The date is from the Twitter API - no idea what format it is or why they use it.

 

My server is in the same timezone as I and it's just pulling the time from $date