PHP: gmdate() function
PHP: Format a GMT/UTC date/time
The gmdate() function is used to get a formatted GMT/UTC date/time.
Version:
(PHP 4 and above)
Syntax:
gmdate(format, timestamp)
Parameters:
Name | Description | Required / Optional |
Type |
---|---|---|---|
format | Day : d - The numeric day of the month with leading zeros (01 to 31) D - Short day abbreviation (three letters). Mon through Sun. j - Day of the month without leading zeros ( 1 to 31) l (lowercase 'L') - Full day name (Sunday through Saturday) N - ISO-8601 numeric representation of a day of a week (1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday). S - English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters (st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j) w - The numeric day of the week. (0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) z - The numeric day of the year (0 to 365) Week: W - ISO-8601 numeric representation of week number of year. Week starting from Monday Month : F - Full month name. (January through December) m - Numeric representation of a month with leading zeros (01 to 12) M - Short month abbreviation (three letters). Jan through Dec n - Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros (1 through 12) t -Number of days of a specified month (28 through 31) Year : L - Whether it's a leap year (set 1 if leap year otherwise 0) o - ISO-8601 year number Y - Numeric year value in 4 digits (1999) y - Numeric year value in two digits (1999 as 99) Time : a - Lowercase am or pm. A - Uppercase AM or PM. B - Swatch Internet time (000 through 999) g - 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros (1 to 12) G - 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros (0 to 23) h - 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros (01 to 12) H - 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros(00 to 23) i - Minutes with leading zeros (00 to 59) s - Seconds, with leading zeros (00 to 59) u - Microseconds(numeric value) Example : 574925 Timezone : e - The timezone identifier (Examples: UTC, Atlantic/Azores) I - Whether the date is in daylights savings time (set 1 for Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise) O - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours (Example: +0300). p - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with a colon between hours and minutes (Example: +03:00). 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 : c - ISO 8601 date (2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00) r - RFC 2822 formatted date. (Thu, 22 Jan 2005 16:01:07 +0200) U - Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) |
Optional | String |
timestamp | An integer indicates the unixtimestamp. If a timestamp is not supplied, it gives the current local time. | Optional | integer |
Return value:
A formatted date string.
Value Type: String.
Example:
<?php
echo "Current GMT date/time is " . gmdate("l F dS Y, H:i");
?>
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