Date and Time : Date and Strftime

date

Description

Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given integer timestampor the current local time if no timestamp is given.

Code examples

/* Today is March 10th, 2001, 5:16:18 pm */
$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a");
$today = date("m.d.y");
$today = date("j, n, Y");
$today = date("Ymd");
$today = date('it is the jS day.');
$today = date("D M j G:i:s T Y");
$today = date('H:m:s m is month');
$today = date("H:i:s");

Returns:
// March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm
// 03.10.01
// 10, 3, 2001
// 20010310
// It is the 10th day.
// Sat Mar 10 15:16:08 MST 2001
// 17:03:17 m is month
// 17:16:17

Acceptable string format

a - "am" or "pm"

A - "AM" or "PM"

B - Swatch Internet time

d - day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros; i.e. "01" to "31"

D - day of the week, textual, 3 letters; e.g. "Fri"

F - month, textual, long; e.g. "January"

g - hour, 12-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "12"

G - hour, 24-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. "0" to "23"

h - hour, 12-hour format; i.e. "01" to "12"

H - hour, 24-hour format; i.e. "00" to "23"

i - minutes; i.e. "00" to "59"

I (capital i) - "1" if Daylight Savings Time, "0" otherwise.

j - day of the month without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "31"

l (lowercase 'L') - day of the week, textual, long; e.g. "Friday"

L - boolean for whether it is a leap year; i.e. "0" or "1"

m - month; i.e. "01" to "12"

M - month, textual, 3 letters; e.g. "Jan"

n - month without leading zeros; i.e. "1" to "12"

O - Difference to Greenwich time in hours; e.g. "+0200"

r - RFC 822 formatted date; e.g. "Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200" (added in PHP 4.0.4)

s - seconds; i.e. "00" to "59"

S - English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters; i.e. "st", "nd", "rd" or "th"

t - number of days in the given month; i.e. "28" to "31"

T - Timezone setting of this machine; e.g. "EST" or "MDT"

U - seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)

w - day of the week, numeric, i.e. "0" (Sunday) to "6" (Saturday)

W - ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday (added in PHP 4.1.0)

Y - year, 4 digits; e.g. "1999"

y - year, 2 digits; e.g. "99"

z - day of the year; i.e. "0" to "365"

Z - timezone offset in seconds (i.e. "-43200" to "43200"). The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive.

strftime

strftime -- Format a local time/date according to locale settings.

Click here to see the full list of formatting options. This function is similar to the date function, but goes about things in a different way.

Author: Markavian
Last edited on: 8th Dec, 12:50 am
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