Changing time into timestrings in PHP
<p>On my website we store all time &amp; date in the following format:</p>

<p>Table Column: Date - 16.01.2012
Table Column: Time - 06:36:50pm</p>

<p>This has been causing problems with those who live in different timezones, therefore we are looking at changing this to simple time() strings, however because theres a lot of content on our site that already has such time(old, not time() strings) in the database, we want to keep that data and therefore are wondering how we can go about changing those strings into time().</p>

<p>I understand how to update databases and all, I am lost on actually converting 16.01.201206:36:50pm into its respective time() string, as strtotime likes things to be perfect.</p>

<p>Thank you for your time, and I look forward to your suggestions.</p>
