PHP strftime() Function
Format local date and time according to locale settings:
echo(strftime(«%B %d %Y, %X %Z»,mktime(20,0,0,12,31,98)).»
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setlocale(LC_ALL,»hu_HU.UTF8″);
echo(strftime(«%Y. %B %d. %A. %X %Z»));
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Definition and Usage
The strftime() function formats a local time and/or date according to locale settings.
Tip: Also look at the gmstrftime() function, which formats a GMT/UTC time and/or date according to locale settings.
Syntax
Parameter Values
- %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
Technical Details
| Return Value: | Returns a string formatted according format using the given timestamp. Month and weekday names and other language-dependent strings respect the current locale set with setlocale() |
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| PHP Version: | 4+ |
| PHP Changelog: | PHP 5.1: Now issues E_STRICT and E_NOTICE time zone errors |
❮ PHP Date/Time Reference