[Wolves] iso8601 dates in PHP

[sparkes]

Matthew Revell wrote:

>Anyone got any idea how I can convert a date of the format:
>
>2004-08-09T15:48:45+01:00
>
>into the standard Unix timestamp, using PHP?
>
>I've searched far and wide for an answer, but can't find anything I can use!
>
>  
>
from http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

I am pretty sure I have done this with strtotime on it's own but this 
bit of code is listed as helping

laters
sparkes

> |For versions of PHP that does not integrate that natively, here is a 
> function to transform a W3C date format (subset of ISO-8601) into a 
> UNIX timestamp:
>
> <?php
> function dateW3cToUnix($w3cDT)
> {//http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
>  //1997-07-28T19:25:30.45+01:00
>  if (strcasecmp('Z',substr($w3cDT,-1,1))==0)
>  {
>   $tzd='+00:00';
>   $myDate=substr($w3cDT,0,-1);
>  }
>  else
>  {
>   $i=strrpos($w3cDT,'+');
>   if ($i<1) $i=strrpos($w3cDT,'-');
>   if (($i>15)&&(strlen($w3cDT)==($i+6)))
>   {
>    $tzd=substr($w3cDT,-6);
>    $myDate=substr($w3cDT,0,-6);
>   }
>   else
>   {
>    $tzd='+00:00';
>    $myDate=substr($w3cDT,0,10);
>   }
>  }
>  $lns=strlen($myDate);
>  $year=($lns>=4)?substr($myDate,0,4):1970;
>  $month=($lns>=7)?substr($myDate,5,2):1;
>  $day=($lns>=10)?substr($myDate,8,2):1;
>  $hour=($lns>=13)?substr($myDate,11,2):0;
>  $minute=($lns>=16)?substr($myDate,14,2):0;
>  $second=($lns>=19)?substr($myDate,17,2):0;
>  $sign=($tzd[0]=='+')?-1:1;
>  $tzdHour=substr($tzd,1,2);
>  $tzdMinute=substr($tzd,-2);
>  $hour+=($tzdHour*$sign);
>  $minute+=($tzdMinute*$sign);
>  return gmmktime($hour,$minute,$second,$month,$day,$year);
> }
> ?>|