How many types we show dates in PHP ie Formatting of date function in PHP . ?

<?php
// Assuming today is July 14th, 2016, 05:44:20 pm, and that we are in the
// Mountain Standard Time (MST) Time Zone

$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a");                 // July 14, 2016, 5:44 am
$today = date("m.d.y");                         // 07.14.16
$today = date("j, n, Y");                       // 14, 7, 2016
$today = date("Ymd");                           // 20160714
$today = date('h-i-s, j-m-y, it is w Day');     // 05-44-20, 14-07-16, 4431 4420 4 Thuam16
$today = date('\i\t \i\s \t\h\e jS \d\a\y.');   // it is the 14th day.
$today = date("D M j G:i:s T Y");               // Thu Jul 14 5:44:20 UTC 2016
$today = date('H:m:s \m \i\s\ \m\o\n\t\h');     // 05:07:20 m is month
$today = date("H:i:s");                         // 05:44:20
$today = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");                   // 2016-07-14 05:44:20 (the MySQL DATETIME format)
?>

• answered 7 years ago
• Community  wiki

We 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)

• answered 7 years ago
• G John