PHP Date Exercises : Print the current date in the specified format

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3. Current Date Formatting

Write a PHP script to print the current date in the following format. To get current date's information you can use the date() function.

Sample format : (assume current date is September 01, 2013)
2013/09/01
13.09.01
01-09-13

Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
// Print the current date in the format Year/Month/Day using date() function with "Y/m/d" format
echo date("Y/m/d") . "\n";

// Print the current date in the format Year.Month.Day using date() function with "y.m.d" format
echo date("y.m.d") . "\n";

// Print the current date in the format Day-Month-Year using date() function with "d-m-y" format
echo date("d-m-y")."\n";
?>

Output:

2017/02/16                                                  
17.02.16                                                    
16-02-17

Explanation:

In the exercise above,

echo date("Y/m/d") . "\n";: Prints the current date in the format Year/Month/Day (e.g., 2024/03/06).
echo date("y.m.d") . "\n";: Prints the current date in the format Year.Month.Day (e.g., 24.03.06).
echo date("d-m-y")."\n";: Prints the current date in the format Day-Month-Year (e.g., 06-03-24).

Flowchart :

For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

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Write a PHP program to print the current date and time in multiple international formats based on a parameter.
Write a PHP script to generate a formatted date string that includes the day of the week, date, month, and year, using the date() function creatively.

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