Programming PHP, 3rd Edition

Name

strptime

Synopsis

array strptime(string date, string format)

Parses a time and date according to the format string and the current locale. The format uses the same format as strftime(). Returns an associative array with information about the parsed time containing the following elements:

tm_sec	Seconds
tm_min	Minutes
tm_hour	Hours
tm_mday	Day of the month
tm_wday	Numeric day of the week (Sunday is 0)
tm_mon	Month
tm_year	Year
tm_yday	Day of the year
unparsed	The portion of date that was not parsed according to the given format