Specific Date Structure to Unixtimestamp

[asantos]

Hi. How do i get from this:
2007-01-25T15:19:29Z

To a unix timestamp?

I dont even know what kind of date structure that is (i am getting that value from a rss autogenerated file).

[jatar_k]

explode on T results in part1 and part2

explode part1 on - gives yyyy mm dd

trim final char from part2

explode part2 on : gives hh mm ss

feed all of that into mktime

result is a timestamp

[Little_G]

Hi,

Alternatively you could also use strtotime [php.net].

Andrew

[jatar_k]

hehe, true

you might have to strip the T and Z, not sure, try it out

[asantos]

thanks for the tips. is this optimized?

$d = '2007-01-26T09:26:07Z';
$d = str_replace('T',' ',$d);
$d = str_replace('Z',' ',$d);
echo strtotime($d);

[jatar_k]

looks fine

does it work?

[Little_G]

Hi,

is this optimized?

No, you don't need to remove the T and Z.

Andrew

[asantos]

Little_G,
actually, if i dont remove the TZ, the return value is -1.

[Little_G]

Hi,

What version of PHP are you using?

Andrew

[asantos]

sorry, forgot to tell you.
4.4

[Little_G]

OK, fair enough, by version 5.2 that problem is fixed.

Andrew