Decode Date?

Hi,

I have some troubles decoding message daate formats. I reveive lots of messages with Date like "Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:45:19 UT"

Could you suggect me how to decode any different date formats?

Thanks.

Hi,
what's the problem with this date ? It's a RFC-822 date time format !!
Here is the code I use

$vl_c_z04=$decoded[0]["Headers"]["date:"];
if (($timestamp = strtotime($vl_c_z04)) === false) {
if (strtolower(substr($vl_c_z04,-2))=="ut") {
$vl_c_z04=substr($vl_c_z04,0,strlen($vl_c_z04)-2)."UTC";
if (($timestamp = strtotime($vl_c_z04)) === false) {
$vl_c_z09="19610123060000";
} else {
$vl_c_z09=date('YmdHis', $timestamp);
}
} else {
$vl_c_z09="now()";
}
} else {
$vl_c_z09=date('YmdHis', $timestamp);
}

The PHP function strtotime is usually very smart to decode dates in any format.

Hi,

Thank you for your responce. I know about strtotime - its very smart but it seems its not smart enought:

if "Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:28:48 UT" --> echo '<h2>'.$decoded[0]['Headers']['date:'].' --> '.date("Y-m-d H:i:s",strtotime($decoded[0]['Headers']['date:'])).'</h2>'; returns "Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:28:48 UT --> 1970-01-01 02:00:00"

I know this is a valid date format. I just want to have a SMART function able to decode ANY valid (and not absolutely valid) Date formats. there are many mails in my mailbox with strange date formats.

Please tell if you know about such good php function.

Thank you!