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    <p>I am using the Facebook PHP SDK to post events to a page on their behalf, but I'm having some problems with the <code>start_time</code> param as I'm pulling the date from a form field. From what I understand this param only accepts an ISO 8601 format date, so I did the following...</p> <p>The form field displays a date and time as follows (for example): <code>11/06/2013 08:00PM</code></p> <p>To which I convert it to a timestamp in Javascript by doing:</p> <pre><code>var d = new Date('11/06/2013 08:00PM'), eventTimestamp = d.getTime(); </code></pre> <p>Which spits out <code>1383796800000</code> - converted back this timestamp in human-readable format is <strong>Thu, 07 Nov 2013 04:00:00 GMT</strong> <em>(11/6/2013 8:00:00 PM GMT-8 in my timezone...)</em>. So far so good!</p> <p>Now here's where the problem comes in. I use POST to send this timestamp to my script posting the Facebook Event, and then to use it for the param I do this in PHP:</p> <p><code>date('c', $_POST['timestamp']);</code></p> <p>When I run the script the event that is posted comes out with a date of (as view on the Facebook Event page): <strong>Saturday, November 25, 1995</strong>.</p> <p>I hope I described this well enough. Can someone please help me out here?</p> <p><strong>Edit...</strong></p> <p>I displayed the data returned by the timestamp in the script, and something interesting happened. Maybe I'm just missing something, but when I echoed <code>$_POST['timestamp']</code> I got:</p> <p><code>1383796800000</code> (correct)</p> <p>But when I echoed <code>date('c', $_POST['timestamp'])</code> I got:</p> <p><code>1995-11-25T12:18:08-08:00</code> (very not correct)</p> <p>What am I missing?</p>
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    1. COIs the value of `$_POST['timestamp']` same as the one you supposedly posted?
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    2. COI edited my post above to check the values, and you were right, they're not the same. Any ideas?
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