What's the quickest most efficient way to change date format??

[iPixel]

I pass a variable (date) which contains the date in format of 03-02-2011 (m-d-Y)

 

how could i quickly change that date format to show 02-MAR-2011 (d-M-Y)

 

Is there a function that can quick do this?

[Zane]

yeah, the date() function

 

date(strtotime("03-02-2011"), "d-M-Y");

[Rifts]

<?php
$date = $yourvar;
echo $date->format('d-M-Y');
?>

[Pikachu2000]

$date = '03-02-2011';
echo strtoupper(date('d-M-Y', strtotime($date)));

[iPixel]

@Zanus... isnt your strtotime() missing a parameter?

 

@Rifts format is a function i do not have.

[iPixel]

$date = '03-02-2011';
echo strtoupper(date('d-M-Y', strtotime($date)));

 

THis returns 31-DEC-1969 and that is definately not the date in teh $date variable.

[Rifts]

format is built into php so you do have it.

 

http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php

[Pikachu2000]

$date = '03-02-2011';
echo strtoupper(date('d-M-Y', strtotime($date)));

 

THis returns 31-DEC-1969 and that is definately not the date in teh $date variable.

 

I've tested that locally, and it works fine with php 5.2.11. What do you get if you echo your $date variable before passing it through the functions?

[iPixel]

I think this will serve best as to help me figure this out...

 

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors','On');

$start = $_GET['start']; //02-23-2011 is the date passed in this $_GET[];

//Convert dates to ORACLE format

$start2 = date_format($start, 'd-M-Y');
$end = strtoupper(date('d-M-Y', strtotime('today')));


echo $start;
echo " -=- ";
echo $end;

echo "<BR><BR>";

echo $start2; // Should be ORACLE FORMAT
echo " --- ";
echo $end;
?>

[iPixel]

OK problem solved... i was passing 02-23-2011 which aparently confuses the heck out of php.. if i pass 23-02-2011 it works fine.

i guess the given format has to be month day year and no other way around it.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The - separator expects dd [.\t-] mm [.-] YY http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php

[AbraCadaver]

The - separator expects dd [.\t-] mm [.-] YY http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php

 

Like wise / expects the other:

 

echo date('M d Y',strtotime('02/20/1971'));
echo date('M d Y',strtotime('20-02-1971'));