Format Date for Manual Insertion into post

Question

I have the following $mydate = "26 January, 2012, 5:05 AM";

I want to format this date properly so I can insert it into a post_date. Is there a simple way to do it?

$post_ information = array (
    //other data is also inserted
    'post_date' => $mydate;
);

strtotime would be your best bet but it doesn't work. Where did you get that date string? — s_ha_dum, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:55
If you can back up a step or two it might be easier. If not, you probably have to parse that string with regex. — s_ha_dum, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:00
@s_ha_dum I got this from an RSS feed that I am reading. I am basically trying to import the data into a post. Everything works fine except that I can't get the date to format properly. — John, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:09
In mysql, the accepted date format is Y-m-d H:i:s, u can customized the display of post date in post loop — Tamil Selvan C, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:10
@TamilSelvan I understand about the formatting being Y-m-d H:i:s but... the issue is how do we get "26 January, 2012, 5:05 AM"; to look like Y-m-d H:i:s — John, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:37

s_ha_dum · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-18 04:17:19Z

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That format is almost readable by strtotime. Remove the commas and it will convert.

$t = '27 January, 2012, 5:05 AM';
$t = str_replace(',','',$t);
$t = strtotime($t);
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s',$t);

answered Apr 18, 2013 at 4:17

s_ha_dum

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