Any suggestions apart from brute force to convert a date like this:

2008-03-23T20:58:50-04:00

to seconds since 1970 ?

On Mar 28, 11:41 pm, Duke of Hazard <squ...@peoriadesignweb.com>
wrote:
> Any suggestions apart from brute force to convert a date like this:
>
> 2008-03-23T20:58:50-04:00
>
> to seconds since 1970 ?

Did some googling and found this, but it give :50 for seconds, instead
of 50:

function parse_w3cdtf ( $date_str ) {

# regex to match wc3dtf
$pat = "/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2})\d{2})(\d{2}))?(?[-
+])(\d{2}):?(\d{2})|(Z))?/";

if ( preg_match( $pat, $date_str, $match ) ) {
list( $year, $month, $day, $hours, $minutes, $seconds) =
array( $match[1], $match[2], $match[3], $match[4],
$match[5], $match[6]);

..oO(Duke of Hazard)

>Any suggestions apart from brute force to convert a date like this:
>
>2008-03-23T20:58:50-04:00
>
>to seconds since 1970 ?

strtotime()

Micha

Duke of Hazard wrote:

> 2008-03-23T20:58:50-04:00

This is not an RSS date. RSS uses RFC-822-style dates, such as:

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:03:40 +0100

The date format you posted is and ISO-8601 date, as used by e.g. Atom.

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On Mar 29, 7:41 am, Duke of Hazard <squ...@peoriadesignweb.com> wrote:
> Any suggestions apart from brute force to convert a date like this:
>
> 2008-03-23T20:58:50-04:00
>
> to seconds since 1970 ?

Should work with strtotime(). I have a feed parser for both RSS and
ATOM and it successfully converts the dates using strtotime().