Nick Beam

// replacement for strtotime(), doesn't work on 1&1
function parse_datetime($datetime) {
        // 2007-10-18T00:56:00.001-04:00
        // int mktime ( [int hour [, int minute [, int second [, int month [, int day [, int year [, int is_dst]]]]]]] )
        $halves = explode("T", $datetime);
        $date = explode("-", $halves[0]);
        $time = array();
        preg_match("/([0-5][0-9])\:([0-5][0-9])\:([0-5][0-9])\.([0-9]{3})\-([0-5][0-9])\:([0-5][0-9])/", $halves[1], $time);
        return mktime($time[1], $time[2], $time[3], $date[1], $date[2], $date[0]);
}