如果您知道格式，请使用strptime，因为strtotime会对格式进行猜测，这可能并不总是正确的。由于strptime没有在Windows中实现，所以有一个自定义函数

http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.strptime.php#86572

记住，返回值tm_year来自1900!tm_month是0-11

例子:

$a = strptime('22-09-2008', '%d-%m-%Y');
$timestamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, $a['tm_mon']+1, $a['tm_mday'], $a['tm_year']+1900)

<?php echo date('M j Y g:i A', strtotime('2013-11-15 13:01:02')); ?>

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

使用mktime:

list($day, $month, $year) = explode('-', '22-09-2008');
echo mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);

对于PHP >=5.3, 7和8，这可能工作-

$date = date_parse_from_format('%Y-%m-%d', "2022-11-15"); //here you can give your desired date in desired format. 
                                                           //just need to keep in mind that date and format matches.

$timestamp = mktime(0, 0, 0, $date['month'], $date['day'], $date['year'] + 2000); //this will return the timestamp

$finalDate= date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp); //now you can convert your timestamp to desired dateTime format.

文档:

date_parse_from_format () mktime () 日期()

以下是我的做法:

function dateToTimestamp($date, $format, $timezone='Europe/Belgrade')
{
    //returns an array containing day start and day end timestamps
    $old_timezone=date_timezone_get();
    date_default_timezone_set($timezone);
    $date=strptime($date,$format);
    $day_start=mktime(0,0,0,++$date['tm_mon'],++$date['tm_mday'],($date['tm_year']+1900));
    $day_end=$day_start+(60*60*24);
    date_default_timezone_set($old_timezone);
    return array('day_start'=>$day_start, 'day_end'=>$day_end);
}

$timestamps=dateToTimestamp('15.02.1991.', '%d.%m.%Y.', 'Europe/London');
$day_start=$timestamps['day_start'];

这样，您可以让函数知道您使用的日期格式，甚至可以指定时区。

如果你想把UTC日期时间(2016-02-14T12:24:48.321Z)转换成时间戳，下面是你该怎么做:

function UTCToTimestamp($utc_datetime_str)
{
    preg_match_all('/(.+?)T(.+?)\.(.*?)Z/i', $utc_datetime_str, $matches_arr);
    $datetime_str = $matches_arr[1][0]." ".$matches_arr[2][0];

    return strtotime($datetime_str);
}

$my_utc_datetime_str = '2016-02-14T12:24:48.321Z';
$my_timestamp_str = UTCToTimestamp($my_utc_datetime_str);