| Format character |
Returned values |
Description |
| r |
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200 |
RFC 822 formatted date |
| w |
0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) |
Numeric representation of the day of the week |
| D |
Mon through Sun |
A textual representation of a day, three letters |
| l (lowercase 'L') |
Sunday through Saturday |
A full textual representation of the day of the week |
| j |
1 through 31 |
Day of the month without leading zeros |
| d |
01 through 31 |
Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros |
| S |
st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j |
English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters |
| t |
28 through 31 |
Number of days in the given month |
| n |
1 through 12 |
Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros |
| m |
01 through 12 |
Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros |
| M |
Jan through Dec |
A short textual representation of a month, three letters |
| F |
January through December |
A full textual representation of a month, such as January or
March |
| y |
Examples: 99 or 03 |
A two digit representation of a year |
| Y |
Examples: 1999 or 2003 |
A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits |
| L |
1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise. |
Whether it's a leap year |
| W |
Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year) |
ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday (added in PHP
4.1.0) |
| z |
0 through 366 |
The day of the year |
| U |
-2147483646 through 2147483647 |
Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) |
| B |
000 through 999 |
Swatch Internet time |
| g |
1 through 12 |
12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros |
| G |
0 through 23 |
24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros |
| h |
01 through 12 |
12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros |
| H |
00 through 23 |
24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros |
| i |
00 through 59 |
Minutes with leading zeros |
| s |
00 through 59 |
Seconds, with leading zeros |
| a |
am or pm |
Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem |
| A |
AM or PM |
Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem |
| O |
Example: +0200 |
Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours |
| T |
Examples: EST, MDT ... |
Timezone setting of this machine |
| Z |
-43200 through 43200 |
Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is
always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive. |
| I (capital i) |
1 if Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise. |
Whether or not the date is in daylights savings
time |