You can use the format method of the DateTime class:
$date = new DateTime(‘2000-01-01’);
$result = $date->format(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’);
If format fails for some reason, it will return FALSE. In some applications, it might make sense to handle the failing case:
if ($result) {
echo $result;
} else { // format failed
echo “Unknown Time”;
}
echo date_format($date,”Y/m/d H:i:s”);