PHP: Need a way to compare two date strings

I need a way to compare two dates, one of the dates is in the format "Jul 5, 2006, 03:32" => "'M j, Y, H:i'".

The other one is a javascript date of the current time.

By compare i mean, find out if one is after or before the other.

Cheers.

Convert them to a unix timestamp and then compare them.

See www.php.net/strtotime and for JS: Date.getTime()

yes, but when i do that with say "Jul 5, 2006, 03:32", it returns -1....

Not here:
$ php -r 'echo strtotime("Jul 5, 2006, 03:32")."\n";'
1152063120
$ php -v
PHP 5.1.1 (cli) (built: Dec 30 2005 04:23:12)

Anyway, if you know the schema, use preg_replace and reformat it to a format that it recognizes.

my local and remote server are both php 4.4.2.... if that changes something, but yeh, preg_replace should work.

In the end i didn't actually need to do this, but its worth knowing for the future.

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