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The PHP date() function convert a timestamp to a more readable date and time.
The strtotime() function parses an English textual datetime into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT). Note: If the year is specified in a two-digit format, values between 0-69 are mapped to 2000-2069 and values between 70-100 are mapped to 1970-2000.
Summary. The date function in PHP is used to format the timestamp into a human desired format. The timestamp is the number of seconds between the current time and 1st January, 1970 00:00:00 GMT. It is also known as the UNIX timestamp. All PHP date() functions use the default time zone set in the php.ini file.
Use PHP's date() function.
Example:
echo date('m/d/Y', 1299446702);
strtotime makes a date string into a timestamp. You want to do the opposite, which is date. The typical mysql date format is date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); Check the manual page for what other letters represent.
If you have a timestamp that you want to use (apparently you do), it is the second argument of date().
I just added H:i:s to Rocket's answer to get the time along with the date.
echo date('m/d/Y H:i:s', 1299446702);
Output: 03/06/2011 16:25:02
$timestamp = 1465298940;
$datetimeFormat = 'Y-m-d H:i:s';
$date = new \DateTime();
// If you must have use time zones
// $date = new \DateTime('now', new \DateTimeZone('Europe/Helsinki'));
$date->setTimestamp($timestamp);
echo $date->format($datetimeFormat);
result: 2016-06-07 14:29:00
Other time zones:
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