date time help

Hey. I have a php date time question. I am passing a date/time string to another page. The problem is that it is in the form:
m/d/y h:m

I want an easy way to parse out the year... month.. minutes.
I thought that if I use that strtodate() I could do this.

$time = "7/14/1981 3:45 PM"; // actually gets requested[].
$timestamp = strtodate($time);
$hour = date("h", $timestamp);

That was just an example I wrote on the fly... but an error tells me that it is prior to 1970 and it can't do it. Is there another way that I can do this easily? Is there a problem with my logic... maybe I'm missing something.

thanx,
Brandon

I've never heard of the strtoday() function, nor can I find any documentation on it. In fact, PHP gives me a function not defined error.

If you use the strtotime() function, it'll work perfectly:

Code:

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$time = "7/14/1981 3:45 PM"; // actually gets requested[].
$timestamp = strtotime($time);
$hour = date("h", $timestamp);

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