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PHP – Convert American to European Date Format

3 Comments Published October 16th, 2007 in PHP

Found a great little snippet of code to use for converting from American to Euro date format and back.


$date=’12/31/2006’;
print ereg_replace(”([0-9] )/([0-9] )/([0-9] )”,”\\2/\\1/\\3″,$date);

Thanks to last-child.com for the Snippet.



3 Responses to “PHP – Convert American to European Date Format”  

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  1. 1 Justin Sainton Nov 26th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    Much simpler and more consistent results by using echo date( ‘m-d-Y’, strtotime( $date) )

  2. 2 Morten Sep 16th, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Thx Justin Sainton, just what i was looking for!

  3. 3 Moises Mar 10th, 2010 at 8:02 am

    In answer to Justin. With this method you can’t convert from European to American.

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