mktime question

I understand that mktime will convert a date to a unix timestamp:

mktime(13, 42, 0, 10, 5, 2004)

but if my dates are this format:

Oct 05 2004 01:42 pm

how do I convert each element to a number? Is there a function for this?
Do I need to use an array? Switch statements?

Thanks in advance.

deko wrote:
>
> I understand that mktime will convert a date to a unix timestamp:
>
> mktime(13, 42, 0, 10, 5, 2004)
>
> but if my dates are this format:
>
> Oct 05 2004 01:42 pm
>
> how do I convert each element to a number? Is there a function for this?
> Do I need to use an array? Switch statements?

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manu..._7.html#SEC110

Not sure if your format conforms to an accepted one or not. If it doesn't,
you'll likely need a preg_replace() with a regex (something like "/^([a-z]+)
(\d{2}) (\d{4}) (\d{2}):(\d{2}) (am|pm)$/i" ) <-- UNTESTED.

Shawn
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> Not sure if your format conforms to an accepted one or not. If it
doesn't,
> you'll likely need a preg_replace() with a regex (something like
"/^([a-z]+)
> (\d{2}) (\d{4}) (\d{2}):(\d{2}) (am|pm)$/i" ) <-- UNTESTED.

It seems getting "Oct 05 2004 01:42 pm" into "13, 42, 0, 10, 5, 2004" is the
challenge. I was thinking I could explode each string into an array and
then use a switch statement for translating the month, and add 12 to the
first side of the ":" in the time (another array) if "pm", and then just put
the array back together separated by commas. will have to do some
testing...

deko wrote:
> It seems getting "Oct 05 2004 01:42 pm" into "13, 42, 0, 10, 5, 2004" is the
> challenge.


$ cat time.php
<?php
$in = "Oct 05 2004 01:42 pm";
$out = strtotime($in);

if ($out == NULL) echo "unable to convert\n";
else {
echo "\"$in\" converts to ",
date('G, i', $out), ", ",
1*date('s', $out), ", ",
date('n, j, Y', $out), "\n";
}
?>

$ php time.php
"Oct 05 2004 01:42 pm" converts to 13, 42, 0, 10, 5, 2004



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