Why won't my date format correctly in PHP?

Asked May 16 '22 at 19:22

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I'm trying to reformat a date, but I'm not having much luck. Here's the code without date_format:

echo sprintf('<h2>Broadcast: %s</h2>', $broadcast['broadcast_datetime']);

The result on the page is "Broadcast: 18/05/2022 12:00 pm" I want to put this in to US date/time format, so I did the following:

echo sprintf('<h2>Broadcast: %s</h2>', date_format($broadcast['broadcast_datetime'], 'm/d/YYYY h:i'));

The result is: "Broadcast: " (the date and time don't show at all)

What am I doing wrong?

asked May 16 '22 at 19:22

RobM

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The first argument to `date_format()` has to be a `DateTime` object, not a string. – Barmar May 16 '22 at 19:25
[May find this useful](https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php) – RiggsFolly May 16 '22 at 19:27
Also `YYYY` will generate you `2022202220222022` :) – RiggsFolly May 16 '22 at 19:29
@RiggsFolly - thanks! forgot about that! lol So I need to convert the string to a DateTime object first then format it. Makes sense. – RobM May 17 '22 at 02:10

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