Returns date formatted according to given format (original) (raw)
Day
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d
Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros
01 to 31
D
A textual representation of a day, three letters
Mon through Sun
j
Day of the month without leading zeros
1 to 31
l (lowercase 'L')
A full textual representation of the day of the week
Sunday through 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, rd orth. 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)
0 through 365
Week
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W
ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday
Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year)
Month
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F
A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March
January through December
m
Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros
01 through 12
M
A short textual representation of a month, three letters
Jan through Dec
n
Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros
1 through 12
t
Number of days in the given month
28 through 31
Year
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L
Whether it's a leap year
1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise.
o
ISO-8601 week-numbering year. This has the same value asY, 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: 1999 or 2003
Y
A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits
Examples: 1999 or 2003
y
A two digit representation of a year
Examples: 99 or 03
Time
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a
Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
am or pm
A
Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
AM or PM
B
Swatch Internet time
000 through 999
g
12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
1 through 12
G
24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
0 through 23
h
12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
01 through 12
H
24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
00 through 23
i
Minutes with leading zeros
00 to 59
s
Seconds with leading zeros
00 through 59
u
Microseconds (added in PHP 5.2.2). Note thatdate() will always generate000000 since it takes an integer parameter, whereas DateTime::format() does support microseconds if DateTime was created with microseconds.
Example: 654321
v
Milliseconds (added in PHP 7.0.0). Same note applies as foru.
Example: 654
Timezone
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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
1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise.
O
Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) without colon between hours and minutes
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.
-43200 through 50400
Full Date/Time
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c
ISO 8601 date (added in PHP 5)
2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00
r
ยป RFC 2822 formatted 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()