The class FeedTime is a utility class provided by FeedWordPress which provides flexible and easy parsing of text date/time formats that are commonly used in feeds.

Sample

 <?php
 // get the starting time from gd:when on a Google Calendar event
 $startTimes = $post->query('/gd:when/@startTime');
 if (count($startTimes) > 0) :
      // query() always returns an array
      foreach ($startTimes as $startTime) :
           $t = new FeedTime($time);
           $ts = $t->timestamp();
      endforeach;
 endif;



 // $ts now contains the Unix-epoch timestamp corresponding to the
 // date/time contained in the last <gd:when startTime="..."/>
 // attribute...



 $prettyDate = date('j F Y', $ts);

Interface

 class FeedTime {
      function FeedTime ($time);
      // Constructor function. Accepts a text date/time to be parsed.



      function set ($time);
      // Setter function. Sets the text date/time to be parsed.



      function timestamp ();
      // Get the Unix-epoch timestamp corresponding to the text date/time.



      function failed ();
      // Returns TRUE if we were completely unable to parse the provided text.
 }