date

Formats a date/time.


Syntax


Parameters

  • String format - How to format the date/time. See the table below.
  • Number type - The time to use, as a Unix timestamp in integer Number format. If omitted, it defaults to the current time, as returned by time().
  • Boolean gmt - Whether to format the date/time according to GMT/UTC.
    • false (default) - the date/time will be formatted according to the local timezone.
    • true - the date/time will be formatted according to GMT/UTC.


Result

  • String - The date/time formatted according to format.

Returns time formatted according to format.

Date format codes

Character Description Example returned values
Day
d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros 01 to 31
D A textual representation of a day, three letters Mon to Sun
j Day of the month without leading zeros 1 to 31
l (lowercase L) A full textual representation of the day of the week Sunday to Saturday
N ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week 1 (for Monday) to 7 (for Sunday)
S English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters st, nd, rd, or th. Works well with j
w Numeric representation of the day of the week 0 (for Sunday) to 6 (for Saturday)
z The day of the year (starting from 0) 0 to 365
Week
W ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday 42 (the 42nd week in the year)
Month
F A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March January to December
m Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros 01 to 12
M A short textual representation of a month, three letters Jan to Dec
n Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros 1 to 12
t Number of days in the given month 28 to 31
Year
L Whether it's a leap year 1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise
o ISO-8601 year number. This has the same value as Y, except that if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead 1999, 2003
Y A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits 1999, 2003
y A two digit representation of a year 99, 03
Time
a Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem am or pm
A Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem AM or PM
B Swatch Internet time 000 to 999
g 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 1 to 12
G 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 0 to 23
h 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 01 to 12
H 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 00 to 23
i Minutes with leading zeros 00 to 59
s Seconds, with leading zeros 00 to 59
Timezone
e Timezone identifier UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores
I (capital i) Whether or not the date is in daylights savings time 1 if Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise
O Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours +0200
P Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes +02:00
T Timezone setting of the webserver EST, MDT
Z Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive -43200 to 43200
Full Date/Time
c ISO 8601 date 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00
r RFC 2822 formatted date Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200
U Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) See time()

The characters in the table above have special meaning when included in format, as described. Unrecognised characters are left as they are. To display a character in the table, instead of the information it would usually be replaced by, the character should be preceded by a backslash (\).

ptpscript/functions/date.txt · Last modified: 2007/01/24 10:15
 
 
 
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