Use below code
$current="DATE OF : 23/03/1951 BENCH:";
$DATEOF = preg_replace('/(.*)DATE OF (.*?)BENCH:(.*)/s', '$2', $current);
if (!is_null($DATEOF)) {
$oldDate = $DATEOF;
$oldDateReplace = str_replace(array('!\s+!', '/^\s+/', '/\s+$/',':'), array('','','',''), trim($oldDate));
$date="".$oldDateReplace.'';
$timestamp = strtotime($date);
if ($timestamp === FALSE) {
$timestamp = strtotime(str_replace("https://stackoverflow.com/", '-', $date));
}
echo $newDateM = date("m/d/Y",$timestamp);
echo $newDate = date("F j, Y",$timestamp);
}else{$newDate="";}
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solved PHP 01/01/1970 Issues with Date Fields