PHP Time Format

The time format is set by special control commands for the date function. Here are these commands:

U – the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 (i.e., timestamp).
z – the day of the year (starting from 0).
Y – year, 4 digits.
y - year, two digits.
m – numeric representation of a month (with leading zeros).
n – numeric representation of a month (without leading zeros).
d – day of the month (with leading zeros).
j – day of the month (without leading zeros).
w – numeric representation of the day of the week (0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, etc.).
h – hour in 12-hour format.
H – hour in 24-hour format.
i – minutes.
s – seconds.
L – 1 if it's a leap year, 0 otherwise.
W – ISO-8601 week number of the year.
t – number of days in the given month.

Any separators can be inserted between the commands (hyphens, colons, etc.).

Examples of Using date

<?php
	// All examples are shown for the date 01.06.2013 at 12.23.59, Monday
	
	echo date('Y'); // returns '2013'
	
	echo date('y'); // returns '13'
	
	echo date('m'); // returns '06' - month number
	
	echo date('d'); // returns '01' - day of the month
	
	echo date('j'); // returns '1' - day of the month (without leading zero)
	
	echo date('w'); // returns '1' - Monday
	
	echo date('H'); // returns '12' - hours
	
	echo date('i'); // returns '23' - minutes
	
	echo date('s'); // returns '59' - seconds
	
	echo date('d-m-Y'); // returns '01-06-2013'
	
	echo date('d.m.Y'); // returns '01.06.2013'
	
	echo date('H:i:s d.m.Y'); // returns '12:23:59 01.06.2013'
?>

PHP Time Format

Examples of Using date

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