Online PHP editor | output for CLgfO

<?php $dateWithHtmlEntities = 'Dec 27 2017, 22:46:15 CET'; $dateWithUTF8Chars = html_entity_decode($dateWithHtmlEntities); $dateInPlainASCII = iconv('UTF-8', 'US-ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', $dateWithUTF8Chars); $dateTimeObject = DateTime::createFromFormat('M d Y, H:i:s T', $dateInPlainASCII); if (!$dateTimeObject) { // TODO handle errors your own way throw new InvalidArgumentException('Date could not be parsed: ' . $decodedDate); } echo 'Final date: ' . $dateTimeObject->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');