转换php中的时间戳

Question

I got time stamp in this format from twitter api.

Fri Dec 28 20:06:38 +0000 2012

I want to convert this to standard time stamp format like this one.

2012-12-10 16:20:18

Am pretty new to dates in php. How can I do it??

Answer 1

You can use DateTime:

$date = new DateTime('Fri Dec 28 20:06:38 +0000 2012');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

The reason why I prefer DateTime is that it gives great oop implementation and makes it easier to work with dates that are quite big head-ache of programmer. For more information about this class read the manual that I have already referenced.