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paddy_fields

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Hi there,

 

I have dates saved in my database in utc format ie- 20100901 (yyyymmdd) for sorting purposes. Currently when I display them I use substr to grab the year, month and day. I was wondering if it's possible to use the date() function to manipulate the data into something like '01 September 2010'. I understand how to format with date(), such as D d Y etc.. but is it possible to apply this to my utc data?

 

Cheers!

paddyfields. 

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You should really store them in the proper (2010-09-16) format to begin with, then you'd be able to format them however you need using MySQL's DATE_FORMAT() function. Currently, you'll need to use a clunky mess like this:

$date = date('d F, Y', strtotime(~your properly formatted string here~))

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