How can I format this variable to be convertable to unix timestamp?
<p>I have a variable that I am grabbing from an XML so I can store it in a database table, but the format given is not being accepted by the "date()" function. Specifically the error says: "date() expects parameter 2 to be long, object given". So how do I format the below example variable value to work in the date() function?</p>

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