Format a local date and time and return the formatted date strings in PHP

/* w ww.java  2 s.  com*/
<?php
    // Prints the day
    echo date("l") . "<br>";

    // Prints the day, date, month, year, time, AM or PM
    echo date("l jS \of F Y h:i:s A");
/*

      d - The day of the month (from 01 to 31)
      D - A textual representation of a day (three letters)
      j - The day of the month without leading zeros (1 to 31)
      l (lowercase 'L') - A full textual representation of a day
      N - The ISO-8601 numeric representation of a day (1 for Monday, 7 for Sunday)
      S - The English ordinal suffix for the day of the month (2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j)
      w - A numeric representation of the day (0 for Sunday, 6 for Saturday)
      z - The day of the year (from 0 through 365)
      W - The ISO-8601 week number of year (weeks starting on Monday)
      F - A full textual representation of a month (January through December)
      m - A numeric representation of a month (from 01 to 12)
      M - A short textual representation of a month (three letters)
      n - A numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros (1 to 12)
      t - The number of days in the given month
      L - Whether it's a leap year (1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise)
      o - The ISO-8601 year number
      Y - A four digit representation of a year
      y - A two digit representation of a year
      a - Lowercase am or pm
      A - Uppercase AM or PM
      B - Swatch Internet time (000 to 999)
      g - 12-hour format of an hour (1 to 12)
      G - 24-hour format of an hour (0 to 23)
      h - 12-hour format of an hour (01 to 12)
      H - 24-hour format of an hour (00 to 23)
      i - Minutes with leading zeros (00 to 59)
      s - Seconds, with leading zeros (00 to 59)
      u - Microseconds (added in PHP 5.2.2)
      e - The timezone identifier (Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores)
      I (capital i) - Whether the date is in daylights savings time (1 if Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise)
      O - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours (Example: +0100)
      P - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours:minutes (added in PHP 5.1.3)
      T - Timezone abbreviations (Examples: EST, MDT)
      Z - Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is negative (-43200 to 50400)
      c - The ISO-8601 date (e.g. 2013-05-05T16:34:42+00:00)
      r - The RFC 2822 formatted date (e.g. Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:01:05 +0200)
      U - The seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)
      and the following predefined constants can also be used (available since PHP 5.1.0):

      DATE_ATOM - Atom (example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+00:00)
      DATE_COOKIE - HTTP Cookies (example: Friday, 12-Apr-13 15:52:01 UTC)
      DATE_ISO8601 - ISO-8601 (example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+0000)
      DATE_RFC822 - RFC 822 (example: Fri, 12 Apr 13 15:52:01 +0000)
      DATE_RFC850 - RFC 850 (example: Friday, 12-Apr-13 15:52:01 UTC)
      DATE_RFC1036 - RFC 1036 (example: Fri, 12 Apr 13 15:52:01 +0000)
      DATE_RFC1123 - RFC 1123 (example: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:52:01 +0000)
      DATE_RFC2822 - RFC 2822 (Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:52:01 +0000)
      DATE_RFC3339 - Same as DATE_ATOM (since PHP 5.1.3)
      DATE_RSS - RSS (Fri, 12 Aug 2013 15:52:01 +0000)
      DATE_W3C - World Wide Web Consortium (example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+00:00)
*/
?>