How to convert date format from one to another?

PHP
1

Hello,

I need to somehow convert dates from one format to another.

The “old” format looks like this:

04 May 6 7:16
05 Apr 23 12:42
05 Jul 3 17:54

The new format needs to be like this:

yyyy-mm-dd

Is this possible? Is there a relatively easy way to do this?

2

Look at mktime().

You should split the time into day month year minute and second (you will need to turn the month into a number) and then you should be able to use mktime:

echo date("Y-m-d", mktime($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year));

This sould output the date in the format yyyy-mm-dd

3

or


echo date("Y-m-d",strtotime($time));
4

OK - forget my method php_deamon’s way is much better

5

It’s close, but with the source date of “06 Apr 25 13:36” I end up with a converted date of “2025-04-06”.

I’ll see if I can try and split up the original date components or something…

6

I ended up with this:

$original_date = “06 Apr 25 13:36”;
$pieces = explode(" “, $original_date);
$new_date = date(“Y-m-d”,strtotime($pieces[2].” “.$pieces[1].” ".$pieces[0]));

Thanks folks!