All of the PHP Date & Time Formats / Characters
With PHP 8, the php.net site decided to hide this table that shows all of the characters you can use to get things like December 25th, 2020 or 05:13pm.
So, I’m putting it here, mostly for my own reference. The php.net page it is currently on can be found here.
format |
Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Day | — | — |
d |
Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros | 01 to 31 |
D |
A textual representation of a day, three letters | Mon through Sun |
j |
Day of the month without leading zeros | 1 to 31 |
l (lowercase ‘L’) |
A full textual representation of the day of the week | Sunday through Saturday |
N |
ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week | 1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday) |
S |
English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters |
st, nd, rd orth. Works well with j
|
w |
Numeric representation of the day of the week | 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) |
z |
The day of the year (starting from 0) | 0 through 365 |
| Week | — | — |
W |
ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday | Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year) |
| Month | — | — |
F |
A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March | January through December |
m |
Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
M |
A short textual representation of a month, three letters | Jan through Dec |
n |
Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
t |
Number of days in the given month | 28 through 31 |
| Year | — | — |
L |
Whether it’s a leap year | 1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise. |
o |
ISO-8601 week-numbering year. This has the same value asY, except that if the ISO week number( W) belongs to the previous or next year, that yearis used instead. |
Examples: 1999 or 2003 |
Y |
A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits | Examples: 1999 or 2003 |
y |
A two digit representation of a year | Examples: 99 or 03 |
| Time | — | — |
a |
Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | am or pm |
A |
Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | AM or PM |
B |
Swatch Internet time | 000 through 999 |
g |
12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
G |
24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 0 through 23 |
h |
12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
H |
24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 00 through 23 |
i |
Minutes with leading zeros | 00 to 59 |
s |
Seconds with leading zeros | 00 through 59 |
u |
Microseconds. Note that date() will always generate 000000 since it takes an intparameter, whereas DateTime::format() does support microseconds if DateTime was created with microseconds. |
Example: 654321 |
v |
Milliseconds (added in PHP 7.0.0). Same note applies as foru.
|
Example: 654 |
| Timezone | — | — |
e |
Timezone identifier | Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores |
I (capital i) |
Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time | 1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise. |
O |
Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) without colon between hours and minutes | Example: +0200 |
P |
Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes | Example: +02:00 |
p |
The same as P, but returns Z instead of +00:00 |
Example: +02:00 |
T |
Timezone abbreviation | Examples: EST, MDT … |
Z |
Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive. |
-43200 through 50400 |
| Full Date/Time | — | — |
c |
ISO 8601 date | 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00 |
r |
» RFC 2822 formatted date | Example: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200 |
U |
Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) | See also time() |