Paypal returns a timestamp of the following format:
yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ
And I don't quite know what to do with it...
How can I convert it to yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss using my local timezone in php?
I'm tempted to preg_replace the mysterious letters, but something tells me there must a better way. There also appears to be 8 hours difference to my zone which I'm not sure how to substract.
Use DateTime class to do your magic.
$date = new DateTime('2012-09-09T21:24:34Z');
$date->format('Y-m-d'); # read format from date() function
You can use strtotime() to get a UNIX timestamp. From there you can do whatever you need: DateTime object, date(), etc.
Example with date():
echo date('r', strtotime('2012-09-10T10:00:00Z'));