title: PHP Date from strtotime with current time
body: <p>I have been looking online for this answer and have come up empty...I am extremely tired so I thought I would give this a go....</p>
  
  <p>I have a variable that has a date from a textbox</p>
  
  <pre><code>$effectiveDate=$_REQUEST['effectiveDate'];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What I am trying to do is take this date and add the current time</p>
  
  <pre><code>date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($effectiveDate))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I echo this out I get 1969-12-31 19:00:00</p>
  
  <p>Is this possible? Can someone point me in the right direction?</p>