Forgive me. I am new to PHP and am a little confused by date
manipulation and would appreciate some guidance.
I have a string containing a date which has been parsed from and RSS
feed. This looks something like: "Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:28:18 -0500" and
is stored in $rssdate

I would like to manipulate this date to correct the timezone
adjustment. (I happen to know that the item I am referencing was
actually timestamped at 09:28:18). I suspect that I have to turn it
into a timestamp (is that correct?)

Attempts to use strtotime($rssdate) have failed... and dropping the
-0500 allows strtotime to complete, but it returns a date of 18 Mar
(which is counter-intuitive, to say the least).

Can anyone offer me any clues?

GorseFox schreef:

Forgive me. I am new to PHP and am a little confused by date
manipulation and would appreciate some guidance.
I have a string containing a date which has been parsed from and RSS
feed. This looks something like: "Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:28:18 -0500" and
is stored in $rssdate
>
I would like to manipulate this date to correct the timezone
adjustment. (I happen to know that the item I am referencing was
actually timestamped at 09:28:18). I suspect that I have to turn it
into a timestamp (is that correct?)
>
Attempts to use strtotime($rssdate) have failed... and dropping the
-0500 allows strtotime to complete, but it returns a date of 18 Mar
(which is counter-intuitive, to say the least).
>
Can anyone offer me any clues?

i think you need strtotime:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

and strftime:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

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GorseFox wrote:

Attempts to use strtotime($rssdate) have failed...

What version of PHP are you using. Parsing the example date you provided
with strtotime seems to work fine here with PHP 5.2.5.


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GorseFox wrote:

$offset = substr($rss_date_array[5],1,2); // Grab the hour offset from UTC

Why ignore the minutes? Yes, there do exist timezones where the minutes
are not '00'.

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