PHP Date Exercises : Get the current date/time of 'Australia/Melbourne'
14. Current Date/Time for Australia/Melbourne
Write a PHP script to get the current date/time of 'Australia/Melbourne'.
Sample Solution:
PHP Code:
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
$date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());
echo $date;
?>
Output:
07/11/2017 12:52:31 am
N.B.: The result may varry for your system date and time.
Explanation:
In the exercise above,
- date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');: Setting the default timezone to 'America/Los_Angeles' to ensure that the date and time are displayed in the Pacific Time Zone.
- $date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());: Get the current date and time using the date() function with the specified format 'm/d/Y h:i:s a', where:
- 'm' represents the month (01 to 12)
- 'd' represents the day of the month (01 to 31)
- 'Y' represents the year (e.g., 2017)
- 'h' represents the hour in 12-hour format (01 to 12)
- 'i' represents the minutes (00 to 59)
- 's' represents seconds (00 to 59)
- 'a' represents lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem (am or pm)
- echo $date: Outputs the formatted date and time.
Flowchart :
For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:
- Write a PHP script to set the default timezone to 'Australia/Melbourne' and then display the current date and time in a formatted string.
- Write a PHP function to change the timezone to 'Australia/Melbourne' and output a custom greeting with the current local time.
- Write a PHP program to compare the server time with 'Australia/Melbourne' time and display both.
- Write a PHP script to retrieve and display the current date and time for Australia/Melbourne using DateTimeZone and DateTime objects.
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