//This code is extracted from the comments on the php.net docs
// Quickest: Y-m-d => Brittish Format
print date("d.m.Y",strtotime("2008-01-01"));

//Will return: 01.01.2008.

http://www.php.net/manual/es/function.date.php#81946

This changes the date format from y-m-d to d-m-y on PHP

Easy transform date format y-m-d => d-m-y on PHP

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