strtotime With Different Languages?

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Cory Dee picture Cory Dee · Aug 8, 2011 · Viewed 31.4k times · Source

Does strtotime only work in the default language on the server? The below code should resolve to august 11, 2005, however it uses the french "aout" instead of the english "aug".

Any ideas how to handle this?

<?php
    $date = strtotime('11 aout 05');
    echo date('d M Y',$date);
?>

Answer

Marco Demaio picture Marco Demaio · May 2, 2014

French month dates are:

janvier février mars avril mai juin juillet août septembre octobre novembre décembre

Hence, for the very specific case where months are in French you could use

function myStrtotime($date_string) { return strtotime(strtr(strtolower($date_string), array('janvier'=>'jan','février'=>'feb','mars'=>'march','avril'=>'apr','mai'=>'may','juin'=>'jun','juillet'=>'jul','août'=>'aug','septembre'=>'sep','octobre'=>'oct','novembre'=>'nov','décembre'=>'dec'))); }

The function anyway does not break if you pass $date_string in English, because it won't do any substitution.

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