How to use date_create with Russian dates in php?

Question

PHP

Here is the code

$test = setlocale(LC_TIME, "Russian");
var_dump($test);
$test = date_create('06 окт. 2014 21:45:17');
var_dump($test);

Issues:

string(19) "Russian_Russia.1251"
bool(false)

That is, the Russian locale is set, but date recognition does not come out of the string. Tell me what to do? The option of replacing the names of months with English variants is obvious, but somehow unpleasant.

Answer 1

$dateFormatter = new \IntlDateFormatter(
    'ru',
    \IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    \IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    new \DateTimeZone('UTC'),
    IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN,
    'dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss'

);

$string = '06 окт. 2014 21:45:17';
var_dump($string);
$timestamp = $dateFormatter->parse($string);
$test = new \DateTime(sprintf('@%s UTC', $timestamp));
var_dump($test);

php.net/manual/en/book.intl.php
Format: userguide.icu-project.org/formatparse/datetime