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Definition and Usage

The date_format() function returns a date formatted according to the specified format.

Note: This function does not use locales (all output is in English).

Tip: Also look at the date() function, which formats a local date/time.

Syntax

date_format( object, format)

Parameter Values

Parameter Description object Required. Specifies a DateTime object returned by date_create() format Required. Specifies the format for the date. The following characters can be used:

d - The day of the month (from 01 to 31)

D - A textual representation of a day (three letters)

j - The day of the month without leading zeros (1 to 31)

l (lowercase 'L') - A full textual representation of a day

N - The ISO-8601 numeric representation of a day (1 for Monday, 7 for Sunday)

S - The English ordinal suffix for the day of the month (2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j)

w - A numeric representation of the day (0 for Sunday, 6 for Saturday)

z - The day of the year (from 0 through 365)

W - The ISO-8601 week number of year (weeks starting on Monday)

F - A full textual representation of a month (January through December)

m - A numeric representation of a month (from 01 to 12)

M - A short textual representation of a month (three letters)

n - A numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros (1 to 12)

t - The number of days in the given month

L - Whether it's a leap year (1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise)

o - The ISO-8601 year number

Y - A four digit representation of a year

y - A two digit representation of a year

a - Lowercase am or pm

A - Uppercase AM or PM

B - Swatch Internet time (000 to 999)

g - 12-hour format of an hour (1 to 12)

G - 24-hour format of an hour (0 to 23)

h - 12-hour format of an hour (01 to 12)

H - 24-hour format of an hour (00 to 23)

i - Minutes with leading zeros (00 to 59)

s - Seconds, with leading zeros (00 to 59)

u - Microseconds (added in PHP 5.2.2)

e - The timezone identifier (Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores)

I (capital i) - Whether the date is in daylights savings time (1 if Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise)

O - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours (Example: +0100)

P - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours:minutes (added in PHP 5.1.3)

T - Timezone abbreviations (Examples: EST, MDT)

Z - Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is negative (-43200 to 50400)

c - The ISO-8601 date (e.g. 2013-05-05T16:34:42+00:00)

r - The RFC 2822 formatted date (e.g. Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:01:05 +0200)

U - The seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)

and the following predefined constants can also be used (available since PHP 5.1.0):

DATE_ATOM - Atom (example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+00:00)

DATE_COOKIE - HTTP Cookies (example: Friday, 12-Apr-13 15:52:01 UTC)

DATE_ISO8601 - ISO-8601 (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 (since PHP 5.1.3)

DATE_RSS - RSS (Fri, 12 Aug 2013 15:52:01 +0000)

DATE_W3C - World Wide Web Consortium (example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+00:00)

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