PHP uses the standard UNIX timestamp, which is the number of seconds since the start of January 1, 1970.
Date/Time appear in different parts of our application, be it a blog application, membership or forum website and so on.
The table below shows the different ways we can format date/time in PHP.
format | description | value |
---|---|---|
z | day of the year | 01 to 365 |
N | day of the week from Monday to Sunday | 1 to 7 |
j | day of the month with no leading zero | 1 to 31 |
S | Suffix for the day of the month | st, nd, rd or th |
d | two digit day of the month with leading zero | 01 to 31 |
D | three letters day of the week | Mon to Sun |
l | full names of the day of the week | Sunday to Saturday |
W | number of the week of the year | 01 to 52 |
y | year in two digit | 00 to 99 |
Y | year in four digit | 0000 to 9999 |
t | number of days in a specific month | 28 to 31 |
F | full name of the month | January to December |
m | number of the month with leading zero | 01 to 12 |
M | names of the month in three letters | Jan to Dec |
n | number of the month with no leading zero | 1 to 12 |
w | day of the week from Sunday to Saturday | 0 to 6 |
i | minutes with leading zero | 00 to 59 |
s | Seconds | 00 t0 59 |
A | uppercase | AM to PM |
a | lowercase | am to pm |
g | 12-hour format with no leading zero | 1 to 12 |
G | 24-hour format with no leading zero | 0 to 23 |
h | 12-hour format with leading zero | 01 to 12 |
H | 24-hour format with leading zero | 00 to 23 |
For further reading check out the PHP date/time documentation
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