get datetime from string

[ohdang888]

I'm given something like this:

Sun Nov 06 2011 09:30:00 GMT-0500 (EST)

 

And i'm trying to turn that into

2011-11-06 09:30:00

 

I started by using explode and trying to loop through the day and month to figure it out, but that seems inefficient and overly complicated. Am i missing something?

 

Thanks

[gizmola]

strtotime

[ohdang888]

strtotime

 

Thanks! knew it should that simple.

 

BUT from that exact string i'm getting this time:

using Sun Nov 06 2011 09:30:00 GMT-0500 (EST)

getting 2011-11-06 4:30:00

 

using

<?php echo date('Y-m-d G:i:s', strtotime(url_decode($_GET["start"]))); ?>

 

I changed the timezone to EST, and its still coming up with the same thing. I've tried messing around with it, but not getting it to work. How do i adust for this difference? thanks

[MasterACE14]

date_default_timezone_set()

[ohdang888]

date_default_timezone_set()

 

Ya i used date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York"); before anything. And that's what I'm getting. I'm assuming I needed to set it to EST because the time is in EST and i want it to match