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format character	Description	return Value Example
Day	---	---
D	The first day of the month with a leading zero of 2 digits	01 to 31
J	Days of the month, no leading zeros	1 to 31
S	English suffix after the number of days per month, 2 characters	st,nd,rd or th. Can be used with J.
Z	Day ordinal of the year	0 to 366
Week	---	---
L (Lowercase letter of "L")	Day of the week, complete text format	Sunday to Saturday
D	Day of the week, text representation, 3 letters	Mon to Sun
N	ISO-8601 format number of days of the week (PHP 5.1.0 new addition)	1 (expression Monday) to 7 (expression Sunday)
W	The day ordinal of the week, the number indicates	0 (expression Sunday) to 6 (expression Saturday)
W	The first weeks of the ISO-8601 format year, starting from Monday (PHP 4.1.0 New)	For example: 42 (42nd Week of the year)
Month	---	---
F	month, complete text format, such as January or March	January to December
M	The month that the number represents, with a leading zero	01 to 12
M	A three-letter-abbreviated month	To Dec.
N	The month that the number represents, without a leading zero	1 to 12
T	The number of days that a given month should be	28 to 31
Years	---	---
L	Whether it is a leap year	If it is a leap year is 1, otherwise 0
O	ISO-8601 format year number. This is the same value as Y, except if the ISO number of weeks (W) belongs to the previous year or the next year, then the year is used. (PHP 5.1.0 new addition)	examples:1999 or 2003
Y	Year with 4 digits full representation	For example: 1999 or 2003
Y	Year in 2-digit digits	For example: 99 or 03
Time	---	---
A	Lowercase morning and afternoon values	AM or PM
A	Uppercase morning and afternoon values	AM or PM
B	When Swatch Internet standards	000 to 999
G	Hours, 12-hour format, no leading zeros	1 to 12
G	Hours, 24-hour format, no leading zeros	0 to 23
H	Hours, 12-hour format, with leading zeros	01 to 12
H	Hours, 24-hour format, with leading zeros	00 to 23
I	Number of minutes with leading zeros	00 to 59>
S	Number of seconds with leading zeros	00 to 59>
Time	---	---
E	Time zone identification (PHP 5.1.0 new addition)	For example: Utc,gmt,atlantic/azores
I	is Daylight saving time	If daylight saving time is 1, or 0
O	Hours of difference from GMT	For example: +0200
P	The difference between GMT (GMT) and the hours and minutes separated by a colon (PHP 5.1.3 new addition)	For example: +02:00
T	Time zone in which this machine resides	For example: EST,MDT ("translator note" under Windows for full text format, such as "Eastern Standard Time", the Chinese version will display "China standard Times").
Z	The number of seconds for the slack offset. The time zone offset to the west of UTC is always negative, and the time zone offset to the east of UTC is always positive.	-43200 to 43200
Full Date/Time	---	---
C	ISO 8601 Format Date (PHP 5 new addition)	2004-02-12t15:19:21+00:00
R	RFC 822 date in format	Example: Thu, DEC 2000 16:01:07 +0200
U	Number of seconds since the Unix era (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)-time stamp	See Time ()