Manipulating date/time

PHP
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I’m trying to manipulate date/time in php. The dates are in this format: 30/04/2021 23:59:00 and I want to change them to: e.g. 2021-05-08 13:47:20 so effectively YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

This is the code I’ve got but it doesn’t output anything except NaN:NaN:NaN - is there anything that anyone can see is obviously wrong with this. I’ve not done much PHP before so

function my_date($date_orig) {
    try {
    $date_time = explode(" ", $date_orig);
    $dmy = explode("/", $date_time[0]);
    return strtotime($dmy[2]."-".$dmy[1]."-".$dmy[0]." ".$date_time[1]);
    } catch (Exception $e) {
    return null;
    }
}
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You’re only manipulating strings here. You don’t need the strtotime function.

3

Brilliant - thank you. That works perfectly.

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