I stored this date in a cookie:
Tue Jun 26 2012 15:38:41 GMT+0200 (CEST)
and now I need to print it in this form:
06/26/2012 15:38
So I write this code:
echo $_COOKIE['date'];
echo date('m/d/Y g:i A', strtotime($_COOKIE['date']));
but I get this:
Tue Jun 26 2012 15:38:41 GMT 0200 (CEST)
12/31/1969 7:00 PM
instead of:
06/26/2012 15:38
Why?
strtotime does not seem to understand the date format, you can try to parse it with DateTime::createFromFormat or you can try to store it in another format
Perhaps its easier to store the timestamp in the cookie and not the date string.
$_COOKIE['date'] = time();
and then read it direct to the date function.
i have tried this:
<?php
setcookie('date', time());
var_dump($_COOKIE);
echo date('m/d/Y g:i A', $_COOKIE['date']);
?>
and the result is: 06/25/2012 6:13 PM
Because strtotime is not recognizing the date format you are using.