PHP date() Function
The date() function formats a local date and time, and returns the formatted date string.
Syntax
date(format, timestamp)
Parameter Values
Parameter with description
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)
timestamp Optional. Specifies an integer Unix timestamp. Default is the current local time (time())
Some of the examples are
<?php
// Prints the dayecho date("l") . "<br>";
// Prints the day, date, month, year, time, AM or PMecho date("l jS \of F Y h:i:s A");
?>
Q: How to get the current date and time in PHP?
Ans: Here is the code
$timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
echo "The current server timezone is: " . $timezone;
// Prints the dayecho date("l") . "<br>";
// Prints the day, date, month, year, time, AM or PMecho date("l jS \of F Y h:i:s A");
?>
Q: How to get the current date and time in PHP?
Ans: The time would go by your server time. An easy workaround for this is to manually set the timezone by using
date_default_timezone_set before the date() or time() functions are called to.
I'm in Pune, India so I have something like this:
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');
Or another example of Nepal
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kathmandu');
You can also see what timezone the server is currently in via:
date_default_timezone_get();
So something like:
$timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
echo "The current server timezone is: " . $timezone;
So the short answer to your question would be:
// Change the line below to your timezone! date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata'); $date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());
Then all the times would be to the timezone you just set :)
Q: How to check the current timezone in PHP?
$timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
echo "The current server timezone is: " . $timezone;
NOTES: Here is the Location that you can use to set your default dates and times.
Asia
| Asia/Aden | Asia/Almaty | Asia/Amman | Asia/Anadyr |
| Asia/Aqtau | Asia/Aqtobe | Asia/Ashgabat | Asia/Atyrau |
| Asia/Baghdad | Asia/Bahrain | Asia/Baku | Asia/Bangkok |
| Asia/Barnaul | Asia/Beirut | Asia/Bishkek | Asia/Brunei |
| Asia/Chita | Asia/Choibalsan | Asia/Colombo | Asia/Damascus |
| Asia/Dhaka | Asia/Dili | Asia/Dubai | Asia/Dushanbe |
| Asia/Famagusta | Asia/Gaza | Asia/Hebron | Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh |
| Asia/Hong_Kong | Asia/Hovd | Asia/Irkutsk | Asia/Jakarta |
| Asia/Jayapura | Asia/Jerusalem | Asia/Kabul | Asia/Kamchatka |
| Asia/Karachi | Asia/Kathmandu | Asia/Khandyga | Asia/Kolkata |
| Asia/Krasnoyarsk | Asia/Kuala_Lumpur | Asia/Kuching | Asia/Kuwait |
| Asia/Macau | Asia/Magadan | Asia/Makassar | Asia/Manila |
| Asia/Muscat | Asia/Nicosia | Asia/Novokuznetsk | Asia/Novosibirsk |
| Asia/Omsk | Asia/Oral | Asia/Phnom_Penh | Asia/Pontianak |
| Asia/Pyongyang | Asia/Qatar | Asia/Qostanay | Asia/Qyzylorda |
| Asia/Riyadh | Asia/Sakhalin | Asia/Samarkand | Asia/Seoul |
| Asia/Shanghai | Asia/Singapore | Asia/Srednekolymsk | Asia/Taipei |
| Asia/Tashkent | Asia/Tbilisi | Asia/Tehran | Asia/Thimphu |
| Asia/Tokyo | Asia/Tomsk | Asia/Ulaanbaatar | Asia/Urumqi |
| Asia/Ust-Nera | Asia/Vientiane | Asia/Vladivostok | Asia/Yakutsk |
| Asia/Yangon | Asia/Yekaterinburg | Asia/Yerevan |
