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Omar
Omar

Reputation: 35

PHP date returning wrong value

I have a date format like this 'Tue May 01 00:00:00 +1000 2012' (from array data on json file)

when I use date() function it returning April, :D

      echo date('F Y', strtotime('Tue May 01 00:00:00 +1000 2012'));

      //it returning "April 2012"

Any ideas how to fix this?

Many Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 907

Answers (2)

Jon
Jon

Reputation: 437774

Instead of using the old date/time functions that mess things up because they implicitly involve your local time zone, use DateTime:

$date = new DateTime('Tue May 01 00:00:00 +1000 2012');
echo $date->format('F Y');

This will also work corrrectly for any date, regardless of the timezone (UTC+10 hours or anything else).

Upvotes: 2

hjpotter92
hjpotter92

Reputation: 80657

You will need to check both the timezones. Or set a custom one for both date and strtotime calls.

Since you are using +1000 as your timezone-offset; I'm assuming it is Australia. You can use the date_default_timezone_set() call to set timezone to Australia.

echo date('F Y', strtotime('Tue May 01 00:00:00 +1000 2012'));
date_default_timezone_set('Australia/Queensland');
echo date('F Y', strtotime('Tue May 01 00:00:00 +1000 2012'));

Here is the codepad link: http://codepad.org/tPC8DEQp

Upvotes: 2

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