PHP date() Function
 Complete PHP Date Reference
Definition and Usage
The date() function formats a local time/date.
Syntax
| Parameter |
Description |
| format |
Required. Specifies how to return the result:
- d - The day of the month (from 01 to 31)
- D - A textual representation of a day (three letters)
- j - The day of the month without leading zeros (1 to 31)
- l (lowercase 'L') - A full textual representation of a day
- N - The ISO-8601 numeric representation of a day (1 for Monday
through 7 for Sunday)
- S - The English ordinal suffix for the day of the month (2
characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j)
- w - A numeric representation of the day (0 for Sunday through 6 for
Saturday)
- z - The day of the year (from 0 through 365)
- W - The ISO-8601 week number of year (weeks starting on Monday)
- F - A full textual representation of a month (January through
December)
- m - A numeric representation of a month (from 01 to 12)
- M - A short textual representation of a month (three letters)
- n - A numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros (1 to
12)
- t - The number of days in the given month
- L - Whether it's a leap year (1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise)
- o - The ISO-8601 year number
- Y - A four digit representation of a year
- y - A two digit representation of a year
- a - Lowercase am or pm
- A - Uppercase AM or PM
- B - Swatch Internet time (000 to 999)
- g - 12-hour format of an hour (1 to 12)
- G - 24-hour format of an hour (0 to 23)
- h - 12-hour format of an hour (01 to 12)
- H - 24-hour format of an hour (00 to 23)
- i - Minutes with leading zeros (00 to 59)
- s - Seconds, with leading zeros (00 to 59)
- e - The timezone identifier (Examples: UTC, Atlantic/Azores)
- I (capital i) - Whether the date is in daylights savings time (1 if
Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise)
- O - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours (Example: +0100)
- T - Timezone setting of the PHP machine (Examples: EST, MDT)
- Z - Timezone offset in seconds. The offset west of UTC is negative,
and the offset east of UTC is positive (-43200 to 43200)
- c - The ISO-8601 date (e.g. 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00)
- r - The RFC 2822 formatted date (e.g. Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07
+0200)
- U - The seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)
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| timestamp |
Optional. |
Example
<?php
echo("Result with date():<br />");
echo(date("l") . "<br />");
echo(date("l dS \of F Y h:i:s A") . "<br />");
echo("Oct 3,1975 was on a ".date("l", mktime(0,0,0,10,3,1975))."<br />");
echo(date(DATE_RFC822) . "<br />");
echo(date(DATE_ATOM,mktime(0,0,0,10,3,1975)) . "<br /><br />");
echo("Result with gmdate():<br />");
echo(gmdate("l") . "<br />");
echo(gmdate("l dS \of F Y h:i:s A") . "<br />");
echo("Oct 3,1975 was on a ".gmdate("l", mktime(0,0,0,10,3,1975))."<br />");
echo(gmdate(DATE_RFC822) . "<br />");
echo(gmdate(DATE_ATOM,mktime(0,0,0,10,3,1975)) . "<br />");
?>
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The output of the code above could be something like this:
Result with date():
Tuesday
Tuesday 24th of January 2006 02:41:22 PM
Oct 3,1975 was on a Friday
Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:41:22 CET
1975-10-03T00:00:00+0100
Result with gmdate():
Tuesday
Tuesday 24th of January 2006 01:41:22 PM
Oct 3,1975 was on a Thursday
Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:41:22 GMT
1975-10-02T23:00:00+0000
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