Definition and usage
gmdate() function formats the GMT/UTC date and time and returns the formatted date string.
Example
Format the GMT/UTC date and time and return the formatted date string:
<?php
// Output week
echo gmdate ( "l" ) . "<br>" ;
// Output the week, day, month, year, time, morning or afternoon
echo gmdate ( "l jS \of FY h:i:s A" ) ;
?>
Try it yourself
grammar
gmdate ( format , timestamp ) ;
| parameter |
describe |
| format
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Required. Specifies the format of the output date string. The following characters can be used:
- d - What day of the month (from 01 to 31)
- D - Text representation of the day of the week (in three letters)
- j - What day of the month, without leading zeros (1 to 31)
- l (lowercase of 'L') - Complete textual representation of the day of the week
- N - ISO-8601 digital format representation of the day of the week (1 means Monday, 7 means Sunday)
- S - English ordinal suffix for the day of the month (2 characters: st, nd, rd, or th. Used with j)
- w - The number of days of the week (0 means Sunday, 6 means Saturday)
- z - What day of the year (from 0 to 365)
- W - In ISO-8601 numeric format, represent the weekly numbers of the year (weekly starts from Monday [Monday])
- F - Full text representation of the month (January to December)
- m - numerical representation of the month (from 01 to 12)
- M - Short text representation of the month (in three letters)
- n - The number of months is represented without leading zeros (1 to 12)
- t - the number of days included in a given month
- L - Whether it is a leap year (1 if it is a leap year, otherwise it is 0)
- o - Year numbers under ISO-8601 standard
- Y - Four digit representation of year
- y - Double digit representation of year
- a - lowercase form: am or pm
- A - capital form: AM or PM
- B - Swatch Internet Time (000 to 999)
- g - 12-hour system without leading zeros (1 to 12)
- G - 24-hour system without leading zeros (0 to 23)
- h - 12-hour system with leading zeros (01 to 12)
- H - 24-hour system with leading zeros (00 to 23)
- i - points, with leading zeros (00 to 59)
- s - seconds, with leading zeros (00 to 59)
- u - Microseconds (newly added in PHP 5.2.2)
- e - Time zone identifier (for example: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores)
- I (capsular form of i) - whether the date is in daylight saving time (1 if it is daylight saving time, otherwise it is 0)
- O - The difference in Greenwich Time (GMT), in hours (Example: +0100)
- P - The difference in Greenwich time (GMT), in hours: minutes (newly added in PHP 5.1.3)
- T - Abbreviation of time zone (example: EST, MDT)
- Z - Time zone offset in seconds. The offset in the time zone west of UTC is negative (-43200 to 50400)
- c - ISO-8601 standard date (for example, 2013-05-05T16:34:42+00:00)
- r - Date in RFC 2822 format (e.g. Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:01:05 +0200)
- U - Number of seconds elapsed since the Unix Era (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)
Also, the following predefined constants (available as of PHP 5.1.0):
- DATE_ATOM - Atom (for example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+00:00)
- DATE_COOKIE - HTTP Cookies (for example: Friday, 12-Apr-13 15:52:01 UTC)
- DATE_ISO8601 - ISO-8601 (for example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+0000)
- DATE_RFC822 - RFC 822 (example: Fri, 12 Apr 13 15:52:01 +0000)
- DATE_RFC850 - RFC 850 (example: Friday, 12-Apr-13 15:52:01 UTC)
- DATE_RFC1036 - RFC 1036 (example: Fri, 12 Apr 13 15:52:01 +0000)
- DATE_RFC1123 - RFC 1123 (Example: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:52:01 +0000)
- DATE_RFC2822 - RFC 2822 (Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:52:01 +0000)
- DATE_RFC3339 - Same as DATE_ATOM (starting with PHP 5.1.3)
- DATE_RSS - RSS (Fri, 12 Aug 2013 15:52:01 +0000)
- DATE_W3C - World Wide Web Alliance (for example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+00:00)
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| timestamp
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Optional. Unix timestamps that specify integers. The default is the current local time (time()). |
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