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Strototime
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strtotime() switches or mixes month, year, day
I've had a little trouble with this function in the past because (as some people have pointed out) you can't really set a locale for strtotime. If you're American, you see 11/12/10 and think "12 November, 2010". If you're Australian (or European), you think it's 11 December, 2010. If you're a sysadmin who reads in ISO, it looks like 10th December 2011.
The best way to compensate for this is by modifying your joining characters. Forward slash (/) signifies American M/D/Y formatting, a dash (-) signifies European D-M-Y and a period (.) signifies ISO Y.M.D.
Observe:
<?php
echo date("jS F, Y", strtotime("11.12.10"));
// outputs 10th December, 2011
echo date("jS F, Y", strtotime("11/12/10"));
// outputs 12th November, 2010
echo date("jS F, Y", strtotime("11-12-10"));
// outputs 11th December, 2010
?>
Hope this helps someone!
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