Converting "2007-05-06T18:48:34-07:00" to timestamp?

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[kazisdaman3]

Hi Webmaster world,

I know alittle bit about parsing, but I really have no idea ho to parse this, and conver this to a timestamp. any ideas?

$date = 2007-05-06T16:52:54-07:00

which should be: 2007-05-06, 4:52PM PDT

Any ideas are greatly appreciated, thanks for taking the time to help me.

[Little_G]

Hi,

Take a look at strtotime [php.net].

Andrew