$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 is he jS day.'); // It is the 10th day (10ème jour du mois).
$today = date("D M j G:i:s T Y"); // Sat Mar 10 17:16:18 MST 2001
$today = date('H:m:s m es le mois'); // 17:03:18 m est le mois
$today = date("H:i:s"); // 17:16:18
$today = date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); // 2001-03-10 17:16:18 (le format DATETIME de MySQL)
echo date('d/m/Y h:i:s a'); // 01/02/2020 01:01:30 am
// 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, 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, 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)
// u - Microseconds (added in PHP 5.2.2)
// e - The timezone identifier (Examples: UTC, GMT, 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)
// P - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours:minutes (added in PHP 5.1.3)
// T - Timezone abbreviations (Examples: EST, MDT)
// Z - Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is negative (-43200 to 50400)
// c - The ISO-8601 date (e.g. 2013-05-05T16:34:42+00:00)
// r - The RFC 2822 formatted date (e.g. Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:01:05 +0200)
// U - The seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)
$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 is he jS day.'); // It is the 10th day (10ème jour du mois).
$today = date("D M j G:i:s T Y"); // Sat Mar 10 17:16:18 MST 2001
$today = date('H:m:s m es le mois'); // 17:03:18 m est le mois
$today = date("H:i:s"); // 17:16:18
$today = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
# From a date Object:
date_format ( DateTimeInterface $object , string $format )
# From the current time
$dateTime = new DateTime();
// or pass a string or int ->`DateTime($date_time)`
$dateTime->format('y-j-d H:i:s T'); #print ex: 21-2-02 16:00:01 PST
# Or a quick one-liner:
date('g:i A m-d-Y', strtotime($date_time)); #print ex: 2:00 PM 02-02-2021
<?php
// set the default timezone to use. Available since PHP 5.1
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
// Prints something like: Monday
echo date("l");
// Prints something like: Monday 8th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM
echo date('l jS of F Y h:i:s A');
// Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
/* use the constants in the format parameter */
// prints something like: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:28:57 -0700
echo date(DATE_RFC2822);
// prints something like: 2000-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
echo date(DATE_ATOM, mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
?>
date_default_timezone_set('UTC'); // set timezone
$timestamp = time(); // get current epoch time
$format = "Y-m-d h:i:sa"; // format for date output
$formatted_date = date($format,$timestamp)); // convert timestamp to format
echo($formatted_date);
<?php
// set the default timezone to use.
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
// Prints something like: Monday
echo date("l");
// Prints something like: Monday 8th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM
echo date('l jS of F Y h:i:s A');
// Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
/* use the constants in the format parameter */
// prints something like: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:28:57 -0700
echo date(DATE_RFC2822);
// prints something like: 2000-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
echo date(DATE_ATOM, mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
?>