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Demonstrates the PHP date formats
The PHP date() function can present dates in lots of different formats. This page helps you to build your own formats
Date as ():
Date formats
| Format code | Format description | 2012-04-15T02:24:14+01:00 |
|---|---|---|
| d | Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros | 15 |
| D | A textual representation of a day, three letters | Sun |
| j | Day of the month without leading zeros | 15 |
| l | A full textual representation of the day of the week | Sunday |
| N | ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week - 1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday) | 7 |
| S | English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters | th |
| w | Numeric representation of the day of the week - 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) | 0 |
| z | The day of the year (starting from 0) | 105 |
| W | ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday | 15 |
| F | A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March | April |
| m | Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros - 01 through 12 | 04 |
| M | A short textual representation of a month, three letters | Apr |
| n | Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros | 4 |
| t | Number of days in the given month | 30 |
| L | Whether it's a leap year | 1 |
| o | ISO-8601 year number - if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead | 2012 |
| Y | A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits | 2012 |
| y | A two digit representation of a year | 12 |
| a | Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | am |
| A | Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | AM |
| B | Swatch Internet time | 100 |
| g | 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 2 |
| G | 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 2 |
| h | 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 02 |
| H | 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 02 |
| i | Minutes with leading zeros | 24 |
| s | Seconds, with leading zeros | 14 |
| u | Microseconds | 000000 |
| e | Timezone identifier | Europe/London |
| I | Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time 1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise. | 1 |
| O | Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours | +0100 |
| P | Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes | +01:00 |
| T | Timezone abbreviation | BST |
| Z | Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive. | 3600 |
| c | ISO 8601 date | 2012-04-15T02:24:14+01:00 |
| r | RFC 2822 formatted date | Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:24:14 +0100 |
| U | Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) | 1334453054 |
| j M Y | Short date format | 15 Apr 2012 |
| Y-m-d | SQL date format | 2012-04-15 |