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Reputation: 1638

What date format is this in? (PHP Codeigniter File Helper)

I'm trying to work out what format this date is in!

  'date' => int 1342640973

Date today is 18.07.2012

I got it from the get_file_info function in the CI File Helper.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1779

Answers (3)

Filip Roséen
Filip Roséen

Reputation: 63797

It's a unix timestamp!

The value you have represent a date/time in seconds since the first of January 1970 (in UTC), it's often referred to as a "unix timestamp" because of it's origin.

Handling this time representation is easily done in PHP, there are native functions made to convert back and to the format.

time () will return the current time in the format specified (unix timestamp), to convert this into a readable string you can use date with the appropriate format-string, as in the below example:

$unix_timestamp = 1342640973;
$now_utimestamp = time (); 

print_r (
  array (
    date ("Y-m-d G:i:s", $unix_timestamp),
    date ("Y-m-d G:i:s", $now_utimestamp)
  )
);

output on my system:

Array
(
    [0] => 2012-07-18 21:49:33
    [1] => 2012-07-18 22:18:43
)

Unless you have told PHP which timezone it's currently in (using php.ini or equivalent) you'll need to specify this using the function date_default_timezone_set(), passing it the value of date_default_timezone_get() will try to set it according to your system preferences.

If it's unable to find a correct match UTC will be used per default.

Upvotes: 2

Gntem
Gntem

Reputation: 7155

in codeigniter use 

unix_to_human(TIMESTAMP)

to get the human readable date, it will require to include date helper

Upvotes: 0

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 24363

It's a unix timestamp, which is the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds.

To get the current timestamp in PHP, you can use time and to convert a timestamp into a human-readable format you can use date.

Upvotes: 3

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