Format GMT/UTC date and time according to locale settings in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to format GMT/UTC date and time according to locale settings.

Example


<?php// w  w w  .ja v  a  2 s  .  c o  m
    echo(gmstrftime("%B %d %Y, %X %Z",mktime(20,0,0,12,31,98))."<br>");
    setlocale(LC_ALL,"hu_HU.UTF8");
    echo(gmstrftime("%Y. %B %d. %A. %X %Z"));

/*

      %a - abbreviated weekday name 
      %A - full weekday name 
      %b - abbreviated month name 
      %B - full month name 
      %c - preferred date and time representation 
      %C - century number (the year divided by 100, range 00 to 99) 
      %d - day of the month (01 to 31) 
      %D - same as %m/%d/%y 
      %e - day of the month (1 to 31) 
      %g - like %G, but without the century 
      %G - 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V). 
      %h - same as %b 
      %H - hour, using a 24-hour clock (00 to 23) 
      %I - hour, using a 12-hour clock (01 to 12) 
      %j - day of the year (001 to 366) 
      %m - month (01 to 12) 
      %M - minute 
      %n - newline character 
      %p - either am or pm according to the given time value 
      %r - time in a.m. and p.m. notation 
      %R - time in 24 hour notation 
      %S - second 
      %t - tab character 
      %T - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S 
      %u - weekday as a number (1 to 7), Monday=1. Warning: In Sun Solaris Sunday=1 
      %U - week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week 
      %V - The ISO 8601 week number of the current year (01 to 53), where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the current year, and with Monday as the first day of the week 
      %W - week number of the current year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week 
      %w - day of the week as a decimal, Sunday=0 
      %x - preferred date representation without the time 
      %X - preferred time representation without the date 
      %y - year without a century (range 00 to 99) 
      %Y - year including the century 
      %Z or %z - time zone or name or abbreviation 
      %% - a literal % character 
*/
?>

The code above generates the following result.





















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