PHP date() Function

Definition and Usage

The date() function formats a local time/date.

Syntax

date(format,timestamp)

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)
timestamp	Optional.

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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 />");
?>

OUTPUT :

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