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Convert ISO 8601 to unixtimestamp

How can I convert 2012-01-18T11:45:00+01:00 (ISO 8601) to 1326883500 (unixtimestamp) in PHP?

Solution

  • This code converts an ISO 8601 datetime to a Unix timestamp in UTC.

    echo date("U",strtotime('2012-01-18T11:45:00+01:00'));

    longer version:

    $dateTime = new DateTime('2012-01-18T11:45:00+01:00');
$dateTime->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
$utcTimestamp = $dateTime->getTimestamp();
echo $utcTimestamp;