Date string encoding, Config Issue?

[eluser]novice32[/eluser]
Hello,

This works in localhost (XAMPP / Windows) but not in production (CentOS Linux).

In the application GUI I enter "04/09/2010" which is sent via POST as string "ItemFoundDate=04/09/2010". However, in the controller the below assignment throws an 500 error.

Code:

$ItemFoundDate =  date("Y-m-d", strtotime($this->input->post('ItemFoundDate')));

I was pre-formatting for a MySQL insert. Anyhow, just to ensure "strtotime" has nothing to do with the issue, I tried the below this still causes an error.

Code:

$ItemFoundDate =  $this->input->post('ItemFoundDate');

Could this be a config setting?

Please advise.
Novice32