Need some help turning string into time

[JJR512]

Suppose you have this string: 200754

The first two digits are today's day of the month (as in Feb. 20). The next two digits are the hour of the day in 24-hour format, and the final two digits are the minutes of the hour (the time in that string is 07:54).

The time zone will always be GMT for the string.

How can this be converted to vBulletin's date/time format, which is something like "1014047921".

BTW, is Zulu or UTC the same time as GMT?

[JJR512]

Hmm...I think I just realized how to split apart the string.

PHP Code:

preg_match("/([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})"/,200754,$matches) 


That ought to split it apart into three pairs of two digits, right? And each pair is identified by $matches[1] or 2 or 3.

That just leaves converting the numbers into vB's format...

[Admin]

You can't do what you are trying to do, because your string misses the year and month indications. And since vBulletin uses the Unix timestamp, you must have those...

[JJR512]

Sorry, I forgot to explain more.

The month and year should be assumed to be the present.

The time format 200754Z is part of a report that gets published about every hour or so. So it is conceivable that someone just after midnight of the last day of the month could be looking at a report that is from last month. There will need to be some code that checks for that kind of thing.

[Radon3k]

JJR512, I can't help you with your PHP problems, but I can tell you that GMT, Zulu, and UTC are all the same time