date()

date - Format a local time/date

Syntax

string date (string $format, int $timestamp)

Arguments

• format - The format of the outputted date string. See the formatting options below. There are also several predefined date constantsthat may be used instead, so for example DATE_RSS contains the format string \'D, d M Y H:i:s\'. The following characters are recognized in the format parameter string format character Description Example returned values Day --- --- d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros 01to 31 D A textual representation of a day, three letters Monthrough Sun j Day of the month without leading zeros 1to 31 l(lowercase \'L\') A full textual representation of the day of the week Sundaythrough Saturday N ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week (added in PHP 5.1.0) 1(for Monday) through 7(for Sunday) S English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters st, nd, rdor th. Works well with j w Numeric representation of the day of the week 0(for Sunday) through 6(for Saturday) z The day of the year (starting from 0) 0through 365 Week --- --- 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) Month --- --- F A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March Januarythrough December m Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros 01through 12 M A short textual representation of a month, three letters Janthrough Dec n Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros 1through 12 t Number of days in the given month 28through 31 Year --- --- L Whether it\'s a leap year 1if it is a leap year, 0otherwise. o ISO-8601 year number. This has the same value as Y, except that if the ISO week number ( W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. (added in PHP 5.1.0) Examples: 1999or 2003 Y A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits Examples: 1999or 2003 y A two digit representation of a year Examples: 99or 03 Time --- --- a Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem amor pm A Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem AMor PM B Swatch Internet time 000through 999 g 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 1through 12 G 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 0through 23 h 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 01through 12 H 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 00through 23 i Minutes with leading zeros 00to 59 s Seconds, with leading zeros 00through 59 u Microseconds (added in PHP 5.2.2) Example: 654321 Timezone --- --- e Timezone identifier (added in PHP 5.1.0) Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores I(capital i) Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time 1if Daylight Saving Time, 0otherwise. O Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours Example: +0200 P Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes (added in PHP 5.1.3) Example: +02:00 T Timezone abbreviation Examples: EST, MDT... Z Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive. -43200through 50400 Full Date/Time --- --- c ISO 8601 date (added in PHP 5) 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00 r » RFC 2822formatted date 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() Unrecognized characters in the format string will be printed as-is. The Zformat will always return 0when using gmdate(). Note: Since this function only accepts integer timestamps the uformat character is only useful when using the date_format() function with user based timestamps created with date_create().
• timestamp - The optional timestamp parameter is an integer Unix timestamp that defaults to the current local time if a timestamp is not given. In other words, it defaults to the value of time().

Description

Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given integer timestamp or the current time if no timestamp is given. In other words, timestamp is optional and defaults to the value of time().

Version

PHP 4, 5

Return value

Returns a formatted date string. If a non-numeric value is used for timestamp, FALSE is returned and an E_WARNING level error is emitted.