PHP strtotime返回false

Question

I have a jquery function which passes the date '27/05/2016 11:25 PM' to a PHP file. The PHP file will update this to the database.

I'm using strtotime to convert this string to date format '05/27/2016 11:25 PM' but strtotime returns false.

My PHP date conversion:

$EndDate = strtotime($Date);
$NewEndDateValue = date('m/d/Y h:i A', $EndDate);

var_dump($NewEndDateValue); //this returns false

Answer 1

strtotime() by default treats dates with / seperators as the wierd USA format for dates, where they start in the middle of a date and work outwards from there (go figure). Its fine to speak it that way but totally illogical to expect a logic machine (computer) to work that way.

Anyway, all you need to do is convert the / to a - and date() will assume a logical date format and therefore work.

<?php
$Date = '27/05/2016 11:25 PM';
$dat = str_replace('/', '-', $Date);
$EndDate = strtotime($dat);

$NewEndDateValue = date('m/d/Y h:i A', $EndDate);

var_dump($NewEndDateValue); // "05/27/2016 11:25 PM"