Set the date and time based on an Unix timestamp in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to set the date and time based on an Unix timestamp.

Example

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<?php
$date = new DateTime();
echo $date->format('U = Y-m-d H:i:s') . "\n";

$date->setTimestamp(1171503725);
echo $date->format('U = Y-m-d H:i:s') . "\n";
?>

The code above generates the following result.