Missing minutes in strtotime() / timestamp

Question

Could somebody please take a look into my code:

$godzinaRozpoczecia = "10:35";
$dateStampGodzinaRozpoczecia = strtotime($godzinaRozpoczecia);
echo date("H:m", $dateStampGodzinaRozpoczecia);
RESULT: 10:08
var_dump($godzinaRozpoczecia);
RESULT:    string(5) "10:35"

What is wrong? Why do I have minutes missing? In var_dump everything seems to be fine. The same issue occurs when I retrieve the time from the database.

Answer 1

The date() function specifies the following format for "H:m" :

• H: 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
• m: Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros

So you're actually showing the month here, you're looking for i :

• i: Minutes with leading zeros

You may have been confused with the format used for the strtotime() , DateTime and date_create() formats . They are different from the date() formats (for some illogical reason).

Answer 2

Try this

date("H:i", $dateStampGodzinaRozpoczecia);

//m is for month.current month is August that is only it gives you 08 as aswer