A summary of date and time functions in PHP usage dates ()

Formatted date
The first parameter of the date () function specifies how the date/time is formatted. It uses letters to represent the format of dates and times. Here is a list of some available

The letters:

D-Day of the month (01-31)
• M-Current month, in Digital (01-12)
Y-Current year (four digits)
You can find all the letters you can use in the format parameters in our PHP Date reference manual.

You can insert additional characters between letters, such as "/", ".", or "-" to add additional formatting:

echo Date ("y/m/d");
echo "
";
echo Date ("Y.M.D");
echo "
";
echo Date ("y-m-d");
?>

The output of the above code is similar to this:

2006/07/11
2006.07.11
2006-07-11

1, year-month-day

Represents the year: Uppercase Y represents the year four digits, and lowercase y represents the two digits of the year.

Represents the month: Uppercase F indicates the full write of the month (without lowercase f), capital M represents the 3 abbreviated characters of the month, and lowercase m represents the number of the month (with leading 0), and lowercase n indicates a month number without a leading.

Day: Lowercase J represents the date of the month, no leading 0 (no uppercase j), lowercase d represents the date of the month with a leading 0, and capital S represents the suffix of the date, such as "St", "nd", "rd", and "th", depending on the date number.

Sample code

echo Date (' y-m-j ');
2007-02-6

echo Date (' y-n-j ');
07-2-6

echo Date (' y-m-j ');
2007-feb-6

echo Date (' y-m-d ');
2007-02-06

echo Date (' y-m-j ');
2007-feb-6

echo Date (' Y-f-js ');
2007-february-6th

2, Hours: minutes: seconds

By default, the PHP interpretation is displayed as "Greenwich Mean Time", which differs from our local time by 8 hours.

The lowercase g represents a 12-hour system without a leading 0, while the lowercase h indicates a 12-hour system with a leading 0.
When using the 12-hour system, it is necessary to indicate that in the afternoon, lowercase a represents the lowercase "am" and "PM", and uppercase a denotes uppercase "AM" and "PM".

Uppercase G denotes 24-hour hours, but without preamble, and uppercase H for leading 24-hour hours

Example code:

echo Date (' g:i:s a ');
5:56:57 am

echo Date (' H:i:s A ');
05:56:57 AM

echo Date (' g:i:s ');
14:02:26

3, Leap year, week, day

The code is as follows
echo Date (' L ');

Leap Year: 0

The code is as follows
echo Date (' L ');

Today is: Tuesday

The code is as follows
echo Date (' D ');

Today is: Tue

Uppercase L Indicates whether this year is a leap years, a Boolean value that returns 1 for true, otherwise 0;
Lowercase L Indicates the day of the week in English full write (Tuesday);
Instead, use uppercase D to denote the 3-character abbreviation (TUE) of the day of the week.

The code is as follows
echo Date (' W ');

Today's Week: 2

The code is as follows
echo Date (' W ');

This week is the No. 06 week of the year.

The lowercase w represents the day of the week, and the numeric representation
Uppercase W indicates the number of weeks in a year

The code is as follows
echo Date (' t ');

This month is 28 days

The code is as follows
echo Date (' Z ');

Today is the 36th day of the year.

Lowercase t indicates the current month and how many days
Lowercase z indicates that today is the first day of the year

4, other

The code is as follows
echo Date (' T '); Utc

Capital T indicates the server's time zone setting

The code is as follows
echo Date (' I '); 0

Uppercase I indicates whether the current is daylight saving time, returns 1 for true, otherwise 0

The code is as follows
echo Date (' U '); 1170769424

The capital U represents the total number of seconds from January 1, 1970 to the present, which is the UNIX timestamp for the Unix time era.

The code is as follows
echo Date (' C '); 2007-02-06t14:24:43+00:00

The lowercase c represents the ISO8601 date, the date format is YYYY-MM-DD, the letter T is used to interval the date and time, the time format is HH:MM:SS, and the timezone is used Greenway

Deviations from the standard Time (GMT).

The code is as follows
echo Date (' R '); Tue, Feb 2007 14:25:52 +0000

The lowercase R represents the RFC822 date.

Add Time stamp

The second parameter of the date () function specifies a timestamp. This parameter is optional. If you do not provide a timestamp, the current time will be used.

In our example, we will use the Mktime () function to create a timestamp for tomorrow.

The Mktime () function returns the Unix timestamp for the specified date.

Grammar
Mktime (HOUR,MINUTE,SECOND,MONTH,DAY,YEAR,IS_DST) to get a timestamp for a given day, we just set the Mktime () function's

The day parameter is available:

The code is as follows
$tomorrow = Mktime (0,0,0,date ("M"), Date ("D") +1,date ("Y")); echo "Tomorrow is". Date ("y/m/d", $tomorrow); ?>

The output of the above code is similar to this:

Tomorrow is 2006/07/12.

There are some more advanced date-time functions introduced to everyone

This class will introduce more functions to enrich our application.

The code is as follows
Checkdate ($month, $date, $year)

If the applied value constitutes a valid date, the function returns to true. For example, for the error date February 31, 2005, this function returns FALSE.

Use this function to check the date and make the date effective before the date is used to calculate or save in the database.

The code is as follows
Returns false echo checkdate (2,30,2005)? "Valid": "Invalid"; Returns True echo checkdate (4,6,2010)? "Valid": "Invalid"; ?> GETDATE ($ts)

In the absence of an argument, the function returns the current date and time in the form of an array. Each element in the array represents one of the date/time values

Specific components. You can submit an optional time label argument to the function to get the date/time value that corresponds to the time label.

Apply this function to obtain a series of discrete, easy-to-detach date/time values.

The code is as follows
Get date as associative array $arr = getdate (); echo "Date is". $arr [' Mday ']. " " . $arr [' Weekday ']. " " . $arr [' Year ']; echo "Time is". $arr [' hours ']. ":" . $arr [' minutes ']; ?> Mktime ($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year)

This function has the opposite effect of getdate (): It generates a UNIX time label from a series of date and time values (GMT time January 1, 1970 to

The number of seconds elapsed now). When no arguments are used, it generates the UNIX time label for the current time.

Use this function to get the UNIX time label for immediate time. This time label is often used in many database and program languages.

The code is as follows
Returns timestamp for 13:15:23 7-jun-2006 echo Mktime (13,15,23,6,7,2006); ?> Date ($format, $ts)

This function formats the UNIX time label as a date string that can be artificially read. It is the most powerful function in the PHP date/Time API and can be used in

In a series of correction values, the integer time label is converted to the desired string format.

This function is applied when the time or date is formatted for display.

The code is as follows
Format Current Date Returns "13-sep-2005 01:16 PM" echo Date ("D-m-y h:i A", Mktime ()); ?> Strtotime ($STR)

This function converts a human-readable English date/time string into a Unix time label.

Apply this function to convert a non-normalized date/time string into a standard, compatible UNIX time label.

The code is as follows
Returns 13-sep-05 echo Date ("D-m-y", Strtotime ("Today")); Returns 14-sep-05 echo Date ("D-m-y", Strtotime ("Tomorrow")); Returns 16-sep-05 echo Date ("D-m-y", Strtotime ("Today +3 Days"); ?> Strftime ($format, $ts)

As defined by the previous setlocale () function, this function formats the UNIX time label as a date string for the current environment.

Apply this function to establish a date string that is compatible with the current environment.

The code is as follows
Set Locale to France (on Windows) SetLocale (Lc_time, "Fra_fra"); Format month/day Names As per locale setting Returns "Septembre" and "mardi" Echo strftime ("Month:%B"); echo strftime ("Day:%A"); ?>

Microtime ()

As defined by the previous setlocale () function, this function formats the UNIX time label as a date string for the current environment.

Apply this function to establish a date string that is compatible with the current environment.

The code is as follows
Get starting value $start = Microtime (); Run some code for ($x =0; $x <1000; $x + +) { $null = $x * $x; } Get ending value $end = Microtime (); Calculate time taken for code execution echo "Elapsed time:". ($end-$start). " SEC "; ?>

Gmmktime ($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year)

This function generates a UNIX time label from a series of date and time values expressed in GMT time. When no arguments are used, it generates a current GMT instantaneous time

The Unix time label.

Use this function to get the UNIX time label for the GMT instant time.

The code is as follows
Returns timestamp for 12:25:23 9-jul-2006 echo Gmmktime (12,25,23,7,9,2006); ?>

Gmdate ($format, $ts)

This function formats the UNIX time label as a date string that can be read artificially. This date string is expressed in GMT (non-local time).

This function is applied when the time label is represented in GMT.

The code is as follows
Format current date into GMT Returns "13-sep-2005 08:32 AM" Echo gmdate ("D-m-y h:i A", Mktime ()); ?>

Date_default_timezone_set ($tz), Date_default_timezone_get ()

This function then all date/Time function calls are set and the default time zone is restored.

Note: This function is only valid in PHP 5.1+.

This function is a convenient shortcut for setting the time zone for future operations.

The code is as follows
Set TimeZone to UTC Date_default_timezone_set (' UTC '); ?>

A summary of date and time functions in PHP usage dates ()