Mega Code Archive

String date ( string date_format [, int timestamp] )

Format characters for use in date( ) Format character Description Example a Lowercase am/pm am or pm A Uppercase am/pm AM or PM B Swatch Internet Time 000 to 999 c ISO 8601 date, time, and time zone 2004-06-18T09:26:55+01:00 d 2-digit day of month, leading zeros 01 to 31 D Day string, three letters Mon, Thu, Sat F Month string, full January, August g 12-hour clock hour, no leading zeros 1 to 12 G 24-hour clock hour, no leading zeros 0 to 23 h 12-hour clock hour, leading zeros 01 to 12 H 24-hour clock hour, leading zeros 00 to 23 i Minutes with leading zeros 00 to 59 I Is daylight savings time active? 1 if yes, 0 if no j Day of month, no leading zeros 1 to 31 l Day string, full Monday, Saturday L Is it a leap year? 1 if yes, 0 if no m Numeric month, leading zeros 01 to 12 M Short month string Jan, Aug n Numeric month, no leading zeros 1 to 12 O Difference from GMT 200 r RFC-822 formatted date Sat, 22 Dec 1979 17:30 +0000 s Seconds, with leading zeros 00 to 59 S English ordinal suffix for day number st, nd, rd, or th t Number of days in month 28 to 31 T Time zone for server GMT, CET, EST U Unix Timestamp 1056150334 w Numeric day of week 0 (Sunday), 6 (Saturday) W ISO-8601 week number of year 30 (30th week of the year) y Two-digit representation of year 97, 02 Y Four-digit representation of year 1997, 2002 z Day of year 0 to 366 Z Time zone offset in seconds -43200 to 43200