PHP Date and Time

We use the PHP function date() to display the date and time in different formats.

We are going to see how to format the

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Let’s see all the available date and time formats in the PHP.

#Date Format Date Format

Output	Format	Example
15/02/19	d/m/y	date( ‘d/m/y’ )
15-Feb-2019	d-M-Y	date( ‘d-M-Y’ )
15 February 2019	d F Y	date( ‘d F Y’ )
15th February 2019	dS F Y	date( ‘dS F Y’ )
Feb, 15th 2019	M, dS Y	date( ‘M, dS Y’ )

Examples:

echo date( 'd/m/y' ); // 15/02/19
echo date( 'd-M-Y' ); // 15-Feb-2019
echo date( 'd F Y' ); // 15 February 2019
echo date( 'dS F Y' ); // 15th February 2019
echo date( 'M, dS Y' ); // Feb, 15th 2019

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#Time Formats Time Formats

See how to show the time in 24 hrs format or with 12 hrs format.

#Time 12 hrs Format Time 12 hrs Format

Output	Format	Example
05:36 pm	h:i a	date( ‘h:i a’ )
05:36 PM	h:i A	date( ‘h:i A’ )
05:36:18 pm	h:i:s a	date( ‘h:i:s a’ )
05:36:18 PM	h:i:s A	date( ‘h:i:s A’ )

Examples

echo date( 'h:i a' ); // 05:36 pm
echo date( 'h:i A' ); // 05:36 PM
echo date( 'h:i:s a' ); // 05:36:18 pm
echo date( 'h:i:s A' ); // 05:36:18 PM

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#Time 24 hrs Formats Time 24 hrs Formats

Output	Format	Example
17:36 pm	H:i a	date( ‘H:i a’ )
17:36 PM	H:i A	date( ‘H:i A’ )
17:36:18 pm	H:i:s a	date( ‘H:i:s a’ )
17:36:18 PM	H:i:s A	date( ‘H:i:s A’ )

Examples

echo date( 'H:i a' ); // 17:36 pm
echo date( 'H:i A' ); // 17:36 PM
echo date( 'H:i:s a' ); // 17:36:18 pm
echo date( 'H:i:s A' ); // 17:36:18 PM

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#Date + Time Format Examples Date + Time Format Examples

Output	Format	Example
15-02-2019 05:36:18 pm	d-m-Y h:i:s a	date( ‘d-m-Y h:i:s a’ )
15-Feb-2019 05:36:18 pm	d-M-Y h:i:s a	date( ‘d-M-Y h:i:s a’ )
15 February 2019 05:36 pm	d F Y h:i a	date( ‘d F Y h:i a’ )

Examples

echo date( 'd-m-Y h:i:s a' ); // 15-02-2019 05:36:18 pm
echo date( 'd-M-Y h:i:s a' ); // 15-Feb-2019 05:36:18 pm
echo date( 'd F Y h:i a' ); // 15 February 2019 05:36 pm

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#All format Examples + Description All format Examples + Description

Format	Example	Description
d	15	d – The day of the month (from 01 to 31)
D	Fri	D – A textual representation of a day (three letters)
j	15	j – The day of the month without leading zeros (1 to 31)
l	Friday	l (lowercase ‘L’) – A full textual representation of a day
N	5	N – The ISO-8601 numeric representation of a day (1 for Monday, 7 for Sunday)
S	th	S – The English ordinal suffix for the day of the month (2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j)
w	5	w – A numeric representation of the day (0 for Sunday, 6 for Saturday)
z	45	z – The day of the year (from 0 through 365)
W	07	W – The ISO-8601 week number of year (weeks starting on Monday)
F	February	F – A full textual representation of a month (January through December)
m	02	m – A numeric representation of a month (from 01 to 12)
M	Feb	M – A short textual representation of a month (three letters)
n	2	n – A numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros (1 to 12)
t	28	t – The number of days in the given month
L	0	L – Whether it’s a leap year (1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise)
o	2019	o – The ISO-8601 year number
Y	2019	Y – A four-digit representation of a year
y	19	y – A two-digit representation of a year
a	pm	a – Lowercase am or pm
A	PM	A – Uppercase AM or PM
B	775	B – Swatch Internet time (000 to 999)
g	5	g – 12-hour format of an hour (1 to 12)
G	17	G – 24-hour format of an hour (0 to 23)
h	05	h – 12-hour format of an hour (01 to 12)
H	17	H – 24-hour format of an hour (00 to 23)
i	36	i – Minutes with leading zeros (00 to 59)
s	18	s – Seconds, with leading zeros (00 to 59)
u	000000	u – Microseconds (added in PHP 5.2.2)
e	UTC	e – The timezone identifier (Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores)
I	0	I (capital i) – Whether the date is in daylights savings time (1 if Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise)
O	+0000	O – Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours (Example: +0100)
P	+00:00	P – Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours:minutes (added in PHP 5.1.3)
T	UTC	T – Timezone abbreviations (Examples: EST, MDT)
Z	0	Z – Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is negative (-43200 to 50400)
c	2019-02-15T17:36:18+00:00	c – The ISO-8601 date (e.g. 2013-05-05T16:34:42+00:00)
r	Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:36:18 +0000	r – The RFC 2822 formatted date (e.g. Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:01:05 +0200)
U	1550252178	U – The seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)