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Displaying Date & Time with PHP

You use date() with string argument to get the current date or time. You might also use the function now() to get the current date & time.
For example, these examples will Illustrate use of date and time functions.
ExampleFunction Result
<?php echo date("F j, Y"); ?> Month name, day & full year July 31, 2010
<?php echo date("m/d/y"); ?> Mont/day/short year 07/31/10
<?php echo date("Ymd"); ?> Full year, month and day 20100731
<?php echo date("d"); ?> Digit day 31
<?php echo date("j"); ?> Digit day-no leading 0 31
<?php echo date("D"); ?> Day name Sat
<?php echo date("m"); ?> Digit month 07
<?php echo date("n"); ?> Digit month-no leading 0 7
<?php echo date("M"); ?> Short month name Jul
<?php echo date("F"); ?> Full month name July
<?php echo date("t"); ?> # of days in current month 31
<?php echo date("y"); ?> Short Year 10
<?php echo date("Y"); ?> Full year 2010
<?php echo date("w"); ?> Day of week 0-Sun 6-Sat 6
<?php echo date("z"); ?> Day of year 0-to-365 211
<?php echo date("W"); ?> Current week of the year (53w) 30
<?php echo date("W"); ?> Currently week of the year (53w) 30
<?php echo date("a"); ?> am or pm am
<?php echo date("A"); ?> AM or PM AM
<?php echo date("g"); ?> 12h format 6
<?php echo date("G"); ?> 24h format 6
<?php echo date("h"); ?> 12h format with leading 0 06
<?php echo date("H"); ?> 24h with leading 0 06
<?php echo date("i"); ?> Minutes 43
<?php echo date("s"); ?> Seconds 58
<?php echo date("T"); ?> Timezon MDT
Following example utilizes Date() function to illustrate more.
<?php
  print "Today's date is: ";
  print date("F j, Y");
  print " and there is ";
  print 365-date("z");
  print " days left of the year ";
  print date("Y");
?>

Execution Result: Today's date is: July 31, 2010 and there is 154 days left of the year 2010
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