PHP Date Formats Reference

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August 21, 2010 # 10:38 PM # Code, PHP Functions # One Comment

Here is a table for formatting the PHP function date() and the letters used to represent different parts of a timestamp.

a	‘am’ or ‘pm’
A	‘AM’ or ‘PM’
B	Swatch Internet time
d	day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros; i.e. ’01′ to ’31′
D	day of the week, textual, 3 letters; i.e. ‘Fri’
F	month, textual, long; i.e. ‘January’
g	hour, 12-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. ’1′ to ’12′
G	hour, 24-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. ’0′ to ’23′
h	hour, 12-hour format; i.e. ’01′ to ’12′
H	hour, 24-hour format; i.e. ’00′ to ’23′
i	minutes; i.e. ’00′ to ’59′
I (capital i)	’1′ if Daylight Savings Time, ’0′ otherwise.
j	day of the month without leading zeros; i.e. ’1′ to ’31′
l (lowercase ‘L’)	day of the week, textual, long; i.e. ‘Friday’
L	boolean for whether it is a leap year; i.e. ’0′ or ’1′
m	month; i.e. ’01′ to ’12′
M	month, textual, 3 letters; i.e. ‘Jan’
n	month without leading zeros; i.e. ’1′ to ’12′
r	RFC 822 formatted date; i.e. ‘Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200′ (added in PHP 4.0.4)
s	seconds; i.e. ’00′ to ’59′
S	English ordinal suffix, textual, 2 characters; i.e. ‘th’, ‘nd’
t	number of days in the given month; i.e. ’28′ to ’31′
T	Timezone setting of this machine; i.e. ‘MDT’
U	seconds since the epoch
w	day of the week, numeric, i.e. ’0′ (Sunday) to ’6′ (Saturday)
Y	year, 4 digits; i.e. ’1999′
y	year, 2 digits; i.e. ’99′
z	day of the year; i.e. ’0′ to ’365′
Z	timezone offset in seconds (i.e. ‘-43200′ to ’43200′). The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive.