PHP date — Format a local time/date

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PHP date — Format a local time/date

By Martin English | June 17, 2005

string date ( string format [, int timestamp] )
$hh = date(“H”);
if ($hh > “11″) { after_midday() };

Fmt Description DAY =========================================================== d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros D A textual representation of a day, three letters j Day of the month without leading zeros l A full textual representation of the day of the week S English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters w Numeric representation of the day of the week z The day of the year (starting from 0)


WEEK ==========================================================
W    ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday (added in PHP 4.1.0)
MONTH =========================================================
F    A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March
m    Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros
M    A short textual representation of a month, three letters
n    Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros
t    Number of days in the given month
YEAR ==========================================================
L    Whether it's a leap year
Y    A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits
y    A two digit representation of a year
TIME ==========================================================
a    Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
A    Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
B    Swatch Internet time
g    12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
G    24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
h    12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
H    24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
i    Minutes with leading zeros
s    Seconds, with leading zeros
TIMEZONE ======================================================
I    Whether or not the date is in daylights savings time
O    Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours
T    Timezone setting of this machine
Z    Timezone offset in seconds. Zones west of UTC are negative, east are positive.

FULL DATETIME ================================================= c ISO 8601 date (added in PHP 5) r RFC 2822 formatted date U Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)

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