cakephp 3 - passing dates with json - json

Question

Cakephp3, I am passing data to another page using Json, my issue seems to be on my new page where my created date is passed as a sting , and displays like '2016-05-16T17:21:10+0000' . How do i format that string to be left with '2016-05-16' ? I've tried setting it as a date, i tried using the i18nFormat with no success.
$http = new Client();
$response = $http->get('http://localhost:8383/mb-be/apis/getmaritimemessagelist.json');
$maritimes = $response->json['content'];
$cnt = count($maritimes);
for ($i=0; $i<$cnt; $i++) {
//var_dump($maritimes[$i]);
echo '<p class="brdr-bttm mrgn-lft-md ">';
echo $this->Html->link($maritimes[$i]['title'], array(
'controller' => 'messages',
'action' => 'view/'. $maritimes[$i]['id']
));
echo '<br />';
$date = $maritimes[$i]['created'];
echo $date;
echo '</p>';
}

Answer 1

I found a solution of this problem.
Here you can use DateTime::createFromFormat to format your created date. but it still has a problem with T inside the date '2016-05-16T17:21:10+0000', just because of timezone(I guess).
you can replace this T with space and got formatted created date as you want.
$http = new Client();
$response = $http->get('http://localhost:8383/mb-be/apis/getmaritimemessagelist.json');
$maritimes = $response->json['content'];
$cnt = count($maritimes);
for ($i=0; $i<$cnt; $i++) {
//var_dump($maritimes[$i]);
echo '<p class="brdr-bttm mrgn-lft-md ">';
echo $this->Html->link($maritimes[$i]['title'], array(
'controller' => 'messages',
'action' => 'view/'. $maritimes[$i]['id']
));
echo '<br />';
$date = $maritimes[$i]['created'];
//--------- Format created date --------
$string = str_replace("T"," ",$date);
$created_date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:sO',$string)->format('Y-m-d');
echo $created_date;
echo '</p>';
}