The PHP gmdate() function formats a GMT/UTC date and time, and returns the formatted date string.
<?php
// prints the day
echo gmdate('l') . '<br>';
// prints the day, date, month, year, time, AM or PM
echo gmdate('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A') . '<br>';
// prints January 11, 2013 was on a Friday
echo 'Jan 11, 2013 was on a ' . gmdate('l', mktime(0, 0, 0, 11, 1, 2013)) . '<br>';
// uses a constant in the format parameter
echo gmdate(DATE_RFC822) . '<br>';
// prints something like: 2013-11-01T00:00:00+00:00
echo gmdate(DATE_ATOM, mktime(0, 0, 0, 11, 1, 2013));
?>
Output
Monday
Monday 25th of September 2023 07:21:28 PM
Jan 11, 2013 was on a Friday
Mon, 25 Sep 23 19:21:28 +0000
2013-11-01T00:00:00+00:00
Syntax
gmdate(format, timestamp)
Parameters
Parameter
Description
format
Specifies the format for the date (required):
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)
DATE_ATOM - Atom (example: 2013-04-12T15:52:01+00:00)
DATE_COOKIE - HTTP Cookies (example: Friday, 12-Apr-13 15:52:01 UTC)
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