wp-includes/rest-api.php:1341Parses an RFC3339 time into a Unix timestamp.
$datestring$force_utcbooloptionalfalseint|falsefunction rest_parse_date( $date, $force_utc = false ) { if ( $force_utc ) { $date = preg_replace( '/[+-]\d+:?\d+$/', '+00:00', $date ); } $regex = '#^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}[Tt ]\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}(?:\.\d+)?(?:Z|[+-]\d{2}(?::\d{2})?)?$#'; if ( ! preg_match( $regex, $date, $matches ) ) { return false; } return strtotime( $date );}Introduced in 4.4.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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