strptime

Description

strptime() returns an array with the date parsed, or FALSE on error.

Month and weekday names and other language dependent strings respect the current locale set with setlocale() (LC_TIME).

Parameters

Return Values

Returns an array, or FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example 1. strptime() example <?php $format = '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S'; $strf = strftime($format); echo "$strf\n"; print_r(strptime($strf, $format)); ?> The above example will output something similar to: 03/10/2004 15:54:19 Array ( [tm_sec] => 19 [tm_min] => 54 [tm_hour] => 15 [tm_mday] => 3 [tm_mon] => 9 [tm_year] => 104 [tm_wday] => 0 [tm_yday] => 276 [unparsed] => )

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