How to convert a Date into Timestamp using PHP ? (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 18 Jan, 2021

The Task is to convert a Date to a timestamp using PHP. The task can be done by using the strtotime() functionin PHP. It is used to convert English textual date-time description to a UNIX timestamp. The UNIX timestamp represents the number of seconds between a particular date and the Unix Epoch.

Syntax:

strtotime ($EnglishDateTime, $time_now)

Example:

PHP `

// PHP program to convert the date // to timestamp <?php

$date = "2020-09-23"; timestamp1=strtotime(timestamp1 = strtotime(timestamp1=strtotime(date); echo $timestamp1; echo "
";

$date2 = "24-09-2020"; timestamp2=strtotime(timestamp2 = strtotime(timestamp2=strtotime(date2); echo $timestamp2; echo "
";

$date3 = "16 May 2019"; timestamp3=strtotime(timestamp3 = strtotime(timestamp3=strtotime(date3); echo $timestamp3; ?> ?>

`

Output:

1600819200
1600905600
1557964800