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27/03/2008, 11h33

GorseFox schreef:
> Forgive me. I am new to PHP and am a little confused by date
> manipulation and would appreciate some guidance.
> I have a string containing a date which has been parsed from and RSS
> feed. This looks something like: "Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:28:18 -0500" and
> is stored in $rssdate
>
> I would like to manipulate this date to correct the timezone
> adjustment. (I happen to know that the item I am referencing was
> actually timestamped at 09:28:18). I suspect that I have to turn it
> into a timestamp (is that correct?)
>
> Attempts to use strtotime($rssdate) have failed... and dropping the
> -0500 allows strtotime to complete, but it returns a date of 18 Mar
> (which is counter-intuitive, to say the least).
>
> Can anyone offer me any clues?

i think you need strtotime:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

and strftime:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

--
Luuk

27/03/2008, 11h33	#2
Luuk Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: Date string manipulation GorseFox schreef: > Forgive me. I am new to PHP and am a little confused by date > manipulation and would appreciate some guidance. > I have a string containing a date which has been parsed from and RSS > feed. This looks something like: "Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:28:18 -0500" and > is stored in $rssdate > > I would like to manipulate this date to correct the timezone > adjustment. (I happen to know that the item I am referencing was > actually timestamped at 09:28:18). I suspect that I have to turn it > into a timestamp (is that correct?) > > Attempts to use strtotime($rssdate) have failed... and dropping the > -0500 allows strtotime to complete, but it returns a date of 18 Mar > (which is counter-intuitive, to say the least). > > Can anyone offer me any clues? i think you need strtotime: http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php and strftime: http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php -- Luuk