How to make strtotime parse dates in Australian (i.e. UK) format: dd/mm/yyyy?
- by Iain Fraser
I can't beleive I've never come across this one before.
Basically, I'm parsing the text in human-created text documents and one of the fields I need to parse is a date and time. Because I'm in Australia, dates are formatted like dd/mm/yyyy but strtotime only wants to parse it as a US formatted date. Also, exploding by / isn't going to work because, as I mentioned, these documents are hand-typed and some of them take the form of d M yy.
I've tried multiple combinations of setlocale but no matter what I try, the language is always set to US English.
I'm fairly sure setlocale is the key here, but I don't seem to be able to strike upon the right code. Tried these:
au
au-en
en_AU
australia
aus
Anything else I can try?
Thanks so much :)
Iain
Example:
$mydatetime = strtotime("9/02/10 2.00PM");
echo date('j F Y H:i', $mydatetime);
Produces
2 September 2010 14:00
I want it to produce:
9 February 2010 14:00
