PHP : strtotime() returns always 01/01/1970

Question

I am trying to display dates in the European format (dd/mm/yyyy) with strtotime but it always returns 01/01/1970.

Here is my codeline :

echo "<p><h6>".date('d/m/Y', strtotime($row['DMT_DATE_DOCUMENT']))."</h6></p>";

In my database, the field is a varchar and records are formated like yyyy.mm.dd

I use the same codeline for another field that is formated like yyyy-mm-dd (varchar too) and it works fine.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Since the format yyyy-mm-dd works, try to replace . with -:

date('d/m/Y', strtotime(str_replace('.', '-', $row['DMT_DATE_DOCUMENT'])));

Answer 2

Try with:

$date = date_parse_from_format("Y.m.d", $row['DMT_DATE_DOCUMENT']);
$time = mktime($date['hour'], $date['minute'], $date['second'], $date['month'], $date['day'], $date['year']);
echo "<p><h6>".date('d/m/Y', $time)."</h6></p>";

(Using date_parse_from_format() instead of strtotime())

Or just:

$date = date_parse_from_format("Y.m.d", $row['DMT_DATE_DOCUMENT']);
echo "<p><h6>{$date['day']}/{$date['month']}/{$date['year']}</h6></p>";