PHP idate() function
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Definition and Usage
The idate() function formats a local time or date as integer.
Syntax
| Parameter |
Description |
| format |
Required. Specifies how to return the result:
- B - Swatch Beat/Internet Time
- d - Day of the month
- h - Hour (12 hour format)
- H - Hour (24 hour format)
- i - Minutes
- I - returns 1 if DST (daylight saving time) is activated, 0
otherwise
- L - returns 1 for leap year, 0 otherwise
- m - Month number
- s - Seconds
- t - Days in current month
- U - Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)
- w - Day of the week (Sunday=0)
- W - ISO-8601 week number of year (week starts on Monday)
- y - Year (1 or 2 digits)
- Y - Year (4 digits)
- z - Day of the year
- Z - Timezone offset in seconds
|
| timestamp |
Optional. Specifies the date or time to be formatted. If no
timestamp is specified, it uses the current local time. |
Tips and Notes
Note: This function accepts just one character in the format
parameter!
Example
<?php
echo(idate("Y"));
?>
|
The output of the code above could be:
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