在php中更改ISO日期时间格式

Question

I am getting ISO datetime using below code

$date= date("c");
echo $date;

which returns something like below

2016-01-07T20:18:46+00:00

But the API I use tells that its wrong format and it needs in below format:

2016-01-07T20:35:06+00Z

I need to remove :00 at the end and add Z.

I am completely new to regex , can anyone help me understand the regex and tell which format is required.

Answer 1

You'll want to define the date format specifically.

If microseconds will always be 00

date("Y-m-d H:i:s+00\Z");

Else, use this little big of logic

date("Y-m-d H:i:s+"). substr((string)microtime(), 2, 2) . 'Z';

More info.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php