date

Description

Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given timestamp or the current local time if no timestamp is given.

The following characters are recognized in the format string:

• U - seconds since the epoch

• Y - year, numeric, 4 digits

• y - year, numeric, 2 digits

• F - month, textual, long; i.e. "January"

• M - month, textual, 3 letters; i.e. "Jan"

• m - month, numeric

• z - day of the year, numeric; i.e. "299"

• d - day of the month, numeric

• l (lowercase 'L') - day of the week, textual, long; i.e. "Friday"

• D - day of the week, textual, 3 letters; i.e. "Fri"

• w - day of the week, numeric, 1 digit

• H - hour, numeric, 24 hour format

• h - hour, numeric, 12 hour format

• i - minutes, numeric

• s - seconds, numeric

• A - "AM" or "PM"

• a - "am" or "pm"

• S - English ordinal suffix, textual, 2 characters; i.e. "th", "nd"

print(date( "l dS of F Y h:i:s A" ));
print("July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0,0,0,7,1,2000)));