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Alexander Nikolov
Alexander Nikolov

Reputation: 1979

Getting the day from a timestamp returns the month

I have the following datetime:

09/05/2016 09:12 (9 May 2016)

I want to get the day from it so I do

date('d', strtotime($date))

but this returns 05, which is the month.

What am I doing wrong ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1938

Answers (4)

Brett
Brett

Reputation: 2010

This is because {J{ thinks it is an American date format.

Try changing the slashes (/) to dashes (-) 

// that is recognized as day month year, not month/day/year
09-05-2016

if you can't get the date in a different format you can do a str_replace to remove the slashes

$date = str_replace('/', '-', $date);

here is a link that may help you.

Upvotes: 4

Murad Hasan
Murad Hasan

Reputation: 9583

As you know that your date is not in correct format then re-format it like you want. Just create your date as you want.

date_create will make a new date from your string. date_format

will convert your date as a new format Finally a date function with

strtotime will display your desired result.

$str = "09/05/2016 09:12";

$date = date_create($str);
$time = date_format($date, "m-d-Y h:i");

echo date("d", strtotime($time)); //09

Upvotes: 0

Jack jdeoel
Jack jdeoel

Reputation: 4584

set format first your datetime by date(). Then call your day!

$date = date("d/m/Y h:i",strtotime($date));//format your date as `09/05/2016 09:12`
var_dump(date("d",strtotime($date)));

Upvotes: 0

Peter
Peter

Reputation: 9123

Using the DateTime class will give you alot more flexibility. For example: Take a look at the createFromFormat method which can convert any format of date and time to a valid DateTime Object.

// Define your date
$date = '09/05/2016 09:12';

// convert it to a DateTime object
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y H:i', $date);

// Output - returns 09
echo $date->format('d');

For more information take a look at PHP's Documentation on DateTime.

Upvotes: 3

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