How to parse 2006-10-30T00:00:00-08:00

[tyrone04]

I have a string that has a format like this 2006-10-30T00:00:00-08:00. What time function can I use to parse it into day, month, date?

[coopster]

That is an acceptable date and time format as specified in ISO 8601 [w3.org] so the PHP strftime() and strtotime() functions should work just fine.

$timestamp = '2006-10-30T00:00:00-08:00'; 
print strftime [php.net]('%d-%m-%Y', strtotime [php.net]($timestamp)); 
// 30-10-2006 
print strftime('%A, %B %d, %Y', strtotime($timestamp)); 
// Monday, October 30, 2006

[tyrone04]

How come strftime() doesn't offer a format for day or month without leading zeros?

So it'd just be 1, not 01.

[jatar_k]

%e - day of the month as a decimal number, a single digit is preceded by a space (range ' 1' to '31')

I don't believe there is one for month though

[mikesmith76]

If you're using php5 try [php.net...] as well.