Format DateTime in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to format DateTime.

Example


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<?php
    $date=date_create("2013-03-15");
    echo date_format($date,"Y/m/d H:i:s");
/*
      d - Day of the month; with leading zeros
      j - Day of the month; without leading zeros
      D - Day of the month (Mon - Sun)
      l - Day of the month (Monday - Sunday)
      S - English suffix for day of the month (st, nd, rd, th)
      F - Monthname (January - December)
      M - Monthname (Jan-Dec)
      m - Month (01-12)
      n - Month (1-12)
      Y - Year (e.g 2013)
      y - Year (e.g 13)
      a or A - am or pm
      g - 12 hour format with leading zeros
      h - 12 hour format without leading zeros
      G - 24 hour format with leading zeros
      H - 12 hour format without leading zeros
      i - Minutes with leading zeros
      s - Seconds with leading zeros
      u - Microseconds (up to six digits)
      e, O, P and T - Timezone identifier
      U - Seconds since Unix Epoch
      (space)
      # - One of the following separation symbol: ;,:,/,.,,,-,(,)
      ? - A random byte
      * - Rondom bytes until next separator/digit
      ! - Resets all fields to Unix Epoch
      | - Resets all fields to Unix Epoch if they have not been parsed yet
      + - If present, trailing data in the string will cause a warning, not an error

*/
?>

The code above generates the following result.





















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