将德国日期转换为Y-m-d不起作用？

Question

I have a date like this: 2. Februar 2012

I want to have it converted to 2012-02-02, so I wrote this code:

$date = '2. Februar 2012';
$date = date('Y-m-d', $date);

The $date var is either empty or 1970-01-01 afterwards, whats wrong or missing?

Note: The date is in German format, so its not February, its Februar. I get the date from a date picker that way.

Thanks!

Answer 1

use strtotime

putenv('LC_ALL=de_DE');
putenv('LANG=de'); 
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'deu_deu');

$date = '2. Februar 2012';
$date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date));