Y/M/D

for their sins.

function e2aDate($strDate) {
trim($strDate);
list($d, $m, $y) = explode(‘/’, $strDate);
$mk = mktime(0,0,0,$m, $d, $y);
$americanDate =strftime(‘%Y-%m-%d’,$mk);

return $americanDate;
}
$aDate=e2aDate(“10/02/2011″); //call the function pass date
$aDate would be set to 2011-02-10

OR
American to European

function a2eDate($strDate) {
trim($strDate);
list($y, $m, $d) = explode(‘-’, $strDate);
$mk = mktime(0,0,0,$m, $d, $y);
$europeanDate =strftime(‘%d/%m/%Y’,$mk);

return $europeanDate;
}
$aDate=a2eDate(“02/10/2011″); //call the function pass date
$aDate would be set to 10/02/2011

change the strftime(‘%d/%m/%Y’,$mk); %d %m %y positions to give correct format.

I would agree with Justin. If I were to do it today, i’d probably convert to unix time stamp and then use the built in date formatting options in PHP. But that is because I dislike regex and the date formatting in PHP is much easier to understand.

However, the point of this snippet is to change from US dates to EU and vice versa. Using the built in php date formatting is only one way. You’d have to localize it for each region.