PHP Date Format
Easy Examples:
$today = date(“F j, Y, g:i a”); // March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm
$today = date(“m.d.y”); // 03.10.01
$today = date(“j, n, Y”); // 10, 3, 2001
$today = date(“Ymd”); // 20010310
$today = date(‘h-i-s, j-m-y, it is w Day’); // 05-16-18, 10-03-01, 1631 1618 6 Satpm01
$today = date(‘\i\t \i\s \t\h\e jS \d\a\y.’); // it is the 10th day.
$today = date(“D M j G:i:s T Y”); // Sat Mar 10 17:16:18 MST 2001
$today = date(‘H:m:s \m \i\s\ \m\o\n\t\h’); // 17:03:18 m is month
$today = date(“H:i:s”); // 17:16:18
$today = date(“Y-m-d H:i:s”); // 2001-03-
$tomorrow = mktime(0, 0, 0, date(“m”) , date(“d”)+1, date(“Y”));
$lastmonth = mktime(0, 0, 0, date(“m”)-1, date(“d”), date(“Y”));
$nextyear = mktime(0, 0, 0, date(“m”), date(“d”), date(“Y”)+1);
Here is the original PHP documentation for more examples and information.
| Format Character | Description | Example returned values |
|---|---|---|
| Hour | ||
| H | 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 00 through 23 |
| G | 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 0 through 23 |
| h | 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
| g | 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
| a | Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | am or pm |
| A | Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | AM or PM |
| Minutes and seconds | ||
| i | Minutes with leading zeros | 00 to 59 |
| s | Seconds, with leading zeros | 00 through 59 |
| Timezone | ||
| O | Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours | Example: +0200 |
| Z | Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive. | -43200 through 43200 |
| T | Timezone setting of this machine | Examples: EST, MDT … |
| I (capital i) | Whether or not the date is in daylights savings time | 1 if Daylight Savings Time, 0otherwise. |
| Day of week | ||
| l(lowercase ‘L’) | A full textual representation of the day of the week | Sunday through Saturday |
| D | A textual representation of a day, three letters | Mon through Sun |
| w | Numeric representation of the day of the week | 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) |
| Day of month | ||
| d | Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros | 01 to 31 |
| j | Day of the month without leading zeros | 1 to 31 |
| S | English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters | st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j |
| t | Number of days in the given month | 28 through 31 |
| Month | ||
| F | A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March | January through December |
| M | A short textual representation of a month, three letters | Jan through Dec |
| m | Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
| n | Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
| Year | ||
| Y | A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits | Examples: 1999or 2003 |
| y | A two digit representation of a year | Examples: 99 or 03 |
| L | Whether it’s a leap year | 1 if it is a leap year, 0otherwise. |
| W | ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday (added in PHP 4.1.0) | Example: 42(the 42nd week in the year) |
| z | The day of the year (starting from 0) | 0 through 365 |
| Preformatted | ||
| r | RFC 2822 formatted date. Equivalent to ‘D, j M Y H:i:s O’. | Example: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200 |
| U | Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) | See also time() |
| B | Swatch Internet time | 000 through 999 |