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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 February 4, 2012
<?php echo date("m/d/y"); ?> Mont/day/short year 02/04/12
<?php echo date("Ymd"); ?> Full year, month and day 20120204
<?php echo date("d"); ?> Digit day 04
<?php echo date("j"); ?> Digit day-no leading 0 4
<?php echo date("D"); ?> Day name Sat
<?php echo date("m"); ?> Digit month 02
<?php echo date("n"); ?> Digit month-no leading 0 2
<?php echo date("M"); ?> Short month name Feb
<?php echo date("F"); ?> Full month name February
<?php echo date("t"); ?> # of days in current month 29
<?php echo date("y"); ?> Short Year 12
<?php echo date("Y"); ?> Full year 2012
<?php echo date("w"); ?> Day of week 0-Sun 6-Sat 6
<?php echo date("z"); ?> Day of year 0-to-365 34
<?php echo date("W"); ?> Current week of the year (53w) 05
<?php echo date("W"); ?> Currently week of the year (53w) 05
<?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 38
<?php echo date("s"); ?> Seconds 27
<?php echo date("T"); ?> Timezon MST
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: February 4, 2012 and there is 331 days left of the year 2012
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