PHP - Date Format And Strtotime()

Hey freaks,

running into a little issue with the use of date and strtotime....

basically I wanna present the date in the format m-d-y to the user and insert it into the DB in the Y-m-d format. 

What seems to be happening is a freaky Y-d-m format and I don't know why this is.  This code is an example that expresses my frustration.

Code: [Select]
$nmon = strtotime("next Monday");
$next = date('m-d-Y', $nmon);
$_SESSION['REPORT_DUE'] = $next;


$nfri = strtotime("Friday");
$due = date('m-d-Y', $nfri);
$_SESSION['WEEK_ENDING'] = $due;
$ses1 = $_SESSION['WEEK_ENDING2'] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($due));
$ses2 = $_SESSION['WEEK_ENDING3'] = date('d-m-Y', strtotime($ses1));


.....output....

Quote

[WEEK_ENDING] => 09-02-2011 [WEEK_ENDING2] => 2011-02-09 [WEEK_ENDING3] => 09-02-2011 )




Thank you for any assistance.

I'm having a bit of trouble converting dates from strings. "171630Z - 181200Z" is what I would like to convert. I want to be able to display more information via date() with strtotime(). The timezone I would prefer is Central. To explain what the string represents:

17 = day (December 17th - today)
1630Z = time in UTC/GMT

18 = day (December 18th - tomorrow)
1200Z = time in UTC/GMT

Is there an easy way of doing this or is it impossible with just the day and time in UTC? Thanks.

Edit: I would also like to convert "1009 AM CST FRI DEC 17 2010" but that isn't working either.

Here is the code im using

$dateOfBirth = '';

preg_match('|Born on ([a-zA-Z]*\s[0-9]*,\s[0-9]*)\\\u003c\\\/span>|', $page, $match);
    if($match && count($match)>0) {
      

$date = str_replace(",","",$match[1]);

blue($date);

$timestamp = strtotime($date);  
        $dateOfBirth = date('Y-m-d',$timestamp); // 1994-03-23 

    }

else

{

red("No Age is set on profile");

continue;

}

im getting a match like this
March 9, 1993

When i run my script im getting this error

[2048] strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CST/-6.0/no DST' instead
Error: [2048] date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CST/-6.0/no DST' instead

What could be the problem??

I am using the following code to get the third sunday of every month for +6 Months from todays date.  I have put together the following code which works perfectly when the date is echoed however when it comes to inserting those dates into mysql db it throws a unable to convert to string error.  Im new to this and my head is in a spin as to why those dates can't be inserted if they can echoed ok.  I have spent 2 days at it now and searched many forum however they seem to get side tracked from my issue (or do they)??????? I figure I can't go mixing DateTime and date() the way I have?  Please help???

Code: [Select]
[php]
$month=date('F');
$now=date('Y-m-d');
$year=date('Y');

$num='3'; //example only this will be a $_POST value 0-3
$day='Sunday'; //example only this will be a $_POST value Monday-Sunday

$start= date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+'.$num.' week '.$day.' '.$month.' '.$year.''));

if($start>$now) {
$begin=strtotime('+'.$num.' week '.$day.' '.$month.' '.$year.'');
} else {
$d = new DateTime( $start );
$d->modify( 'first day of next month' );
$nextmonth = $d->format( 'F' );
$year = $d->format( 'Y' );
$begin=strtotime('+'.$num.' week '.$day.' '.$nextmonth.' '.$year.'');
}

$date=date('Y-m-d', $begin);
# insert into db first occurance
//mysql_select_db($database);
//$query_rsFirst = "INSERT INTO event_date VALUES (NULL, '$event', '$d', '$date', '$date')";
//$rsFirst = mysql_query($query_rsFirst) or die(mysql_error());
echo $date.'<br/>';
for($i = 0; $i <= 4; $i++)  {
$d = new DateTime( $date );
$d->modify( 'first day of next month' );
$nextmonth = $d->format( 'F' );
$date=date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+'.$num.' week '.$day.' '.$nextmonth.' '.$year.''));

# insert into db
//mysql_select_db($database);
//$query_rsDate = "INSERT INTO event_date VALUES (NULL, '$event', '$d', '$date', '$date')";
//$rsDate = mysql_query($query_rsDate) or die(mysql_error());
echo $date.'<br/>';
if($nextmonth=="December") {
$d = new DateTime( $date );
$d->modify( 'first day of next year' );
$year = $d->format( 'Y' );
}
}
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hi i have a mysql table with upddate and updtime field as follows:
upddate       updtime
2011-02-25  11:03:05
2011-01-28  08:01:09
2011-02-20  07:00:08
2011-02-15  06:10:02
2011-02-05  10:21:04
2011-02-09  10:20:25

the data types for upddate is mysql date and for updtime its mysql time

In my php page i use Code: [Select]
<?php echo $date = date("d M Y",strtotime($row_rs1['upddate'])); ?> to retrieve date and the results displays as 25 Feb 2011. And for time right now im using Code: [Select]
<?php echo $row_rs1['updtime']; ?> which displays time as 11:03:05

I want to display time as HH:MM only, how can i do it?