What are some potential pitfalls when sorting arrays by date in PHP?

One potential pitfall when sorting arrays by date in PHP is that the dates may not be in a format that can be easily sorted chronologically. To solve this issue, you can use the strtotime() function to convert the dates to Unix timestamps before sorting the array. 

// Sample array of dates
$dates = ['2021-05-15', '2021-04-20', '2021-06-10'];

// Convert dates to Unix timestamps
foreach ($dates as $key => $date) {
    $dates[$key] = strtotime($date);
}

// Sort the array
asort($dates);

// Convert Unix timestamps back to date format
foreach ($dates as $key => $timestamp) {
    $dates[$key] = date('Y-m-d', $timestamp);
}

// Output sorted dates
print_r($dates);

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