Send PHP date to JavaScript date format

Question

I want to pass my PHP server time to my JavaScript file.

PHP Code:

date_default_timezone_set('Australia/Perth');
echo date("r");

JavaScript:

$.get('time.php', function(data) {
  today = new Date(data);
  closing = new Date(data);
});

The PHP code returns Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:01:23 +0800 which is correct time for Australia/Perth. But this returns an invalid JavaScript date object.

When I try to convert it to timestamp like:

 echo strtotime(date("r"));

I get the JavaScript date Sun Mar 18 2012 04:03:14 GMT+0000 (WET) (this is the value of today js var)

If I use:

echo gmstrftime('%s');

I get: Sat Mar 17 2012 20:04:30 GMT+0000 (WET).

Can anyone please help me out?

Answer 1

The PHP code in Luna's answer with echo date isn't exactly like JavaScript code. This will mimic the JavaScript code exactly:

echo date('D M d Y H:i:s O');