How algorithm of strtotime(PHP Date function) Works?

Question

1. i wanna to know how strtotime (php Date function) work?
2. how Parse string Like "15 September 2012" to timeStamp
3. is there any better algorithm?

my purpose is changing this function for Persian Language

Answer 1

You can browse the source code of PHP ( https://github.com/php/php-src) and search function to see its implementation.

UPDATE

Here is the algorithm of the function strtotime () https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/date/php_date.c#L1324

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