convert date to T Z format [duplicate]

Question

My date format is something like this

2013-05-07 18:56:57 (yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss) 

I want the output as following.

2013-05-07T06:17:55.827Z 

Is there a simple way than using big functions ?

Answer 1

Try this:

 date("Y-m-d\TH:i:s.000\Z", strtotime("2013-05-07 18:56:57")); 

Answer 2

This should give the proper ISO8601 date/time in Z(ulu) timezone:

str_replace('+00:00', 'Z', gmdate('c')) 

To do a date conversion:

str_replace('+00:00', 'Z', gmdate('c', strtotime('2013-05-07 18:56:57'))) 

To have the additional .000 (which is useless imho):

str_replace('+00:00', '.000Z', gmdate('c', strtotime('2013-05-07 18:56:57')))