PHP » Miscellaneous » date()
- Syntax:
- string date(string format [, int time])
- format
- How to format the date.
- time
- Time (seconds since January 1, 1970) that should be formatted.
Returns a formatted date string.
The date() function returns a string with the current date and/or time, formatted as specified in the format parameter. If the optional time paramater is not specified, the current time is used. A list of the formatting codes available follows.
| a | am/pm |
| A | AM/PM (capital letters) |
| B | Swatch Internet time |
| d | Day of the month (two digits) |
| D | Day of the week (three letters) |
| F | Month name |
| g | Hours (between 1 and 12) |
| G | Hours (between 0 and 23) |
| h | Hours (between 01 and 12, two digits) |
| H | Hours (between 00 and 23, two digits) |
| i | Minutes |
| I | 1 or 0, depending on daylight savings time |
| j | Day of the month (no leading zeros) |
| l | Day of the week |
| L | 1 or 0, depending on leap year or not |
| m | Month number (two digits) |
| M | Month name (three letters) |
| n | Month number (no leading zeros) |
| O | Offset to Greenwhich Mean Time (number of hours) |
| r | RFC822 formatting |
| s | Seconds (two digits) |
| S | Ordinal suffix for day number (st, nd, rd, th) |
| t | Number of days in the month |
| T | Time zone |
| U | Seconds since January 1, 1970 |
| w | Day of the week as a number |
| W | Week number (ISO-8601) |
| y | Year (two digits) |
| Y | Year (four digits) |
| z | Day of the year |
| Z | Offset to UTC as a number of seconds |
Examples
Code:
<?php
print date("g:iA F jS, Y", 1200000000);
?> Output:
10:20PM January 10th, 2008 Explanation:
A date 1,200,000,000 seconds from January 1, 1970 is formatted using the date() function.
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