Php Convert date time like "2017-01-10T18:00:00.000Z" to standard time [duplicate]

Question

I get a response from a other server with a date time like below,

"2017-01-10T18:00:00.000Z"

I want to convert this to standard date time like this, how do i do this ?

"2017-01-10 18:00:00"

is there a standard way of doing this ? or do i have rely on the regular expressions to the decode it ?

NOTE:

most people suggest i use below function

echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("2017-01-10T18:00:00.000Z")) . "\n";**

but output i get is wrong from this function is "2017-01-11 05:00:00" not as "2017-01-11 18:00:00" why ? I want as i said "2017-01-10 18:00:00"

Answer 1

you can use date('Y-m-d h:i:s', strtotime($yourDate));
Hope it will help you :)

Answer 2

Ah OK...in php, that long timestamp ending with Z can be converted to a unix timestamp with strototime and then back to a date using the date function

echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("2017-01-10T18:00:00.000Z")) . "\n";

WARNING: the current time zone setting on your server may result in the time being adjusted