string date ( string date_format [, int timestamp] ) : date « Date « PHP






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string date ( string date_format [, int timestamp] )

 
Format characters for use in date( )

Format character     Description                       Example
 
a                    Lowercase am/pm                   am or pm
 
A                    Uppercase am/pm                   AM or PM
 
B                    Swatch Internet Time              000 to 999
 
c                    ISO 8601 date, time, and time zone       2004-06-18T09:26:55+01:00
 
d                    2-digit day of month, leading zeros      01 to 31
 
D                    Day string, three letters                Mon, Thu, Sat
 
F                    Month string, full                       January, August
 
g                    12-hour clock hour, no leading zeros     1 to 12
 
G                    24-hour clock hour, no leading zeros     0 to 23
 
h                    12-hour clock hour, leading zeros        01 to 12
 
H                    24-hour clock hour, leading zeros        00 to 23
 
i                    Minutes with leading zeros               00 to 59
 
I                    Is daylight savings time active?         1 if yes, 0 if no
 
j                    Day of month, no leading zeros           1 to 31
 
l                    Day string, full                         Monday, Saturday
 
L                    Is it a leap year?                       1 if yes, 0 if no
 
m                    Numeric month, leading zeros             01 to 12
 
M                    Short month string                       Jan, Aug
 
n                    Numeric month, no leading zeros          1 to 12
 
O                    Difference from GMT                      200
 
r                    RFC-822 formatted date                   Sat, 22 Dec 1979 17:30 +0000
 
s                    Seconds, with leading zeros              00 to 59
 
S                    English ordinal suffix for day number    st, nd, rd, or th
 
t                    Number of days in month                  28 to 31
 
T                    Time zone for server                     GMT, CET, EST
 
U                    Unix Timestamp                           1056150334
 
w                    Numeric day of week                      0 (Sunday), 6 (Saturday)
 
W                    ISO-8601 week number of year             30 (30th week of the year)
 
y                    Two-digit representation of year         97, 02
 
Y                    Four-digit representation of year        1997, 2002
 
z                    Day of year                              0 to 366
 
Z                    Time zone offset in seconds              -43200 to 43200








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