These functions allow you to get the date and time from the server
where your PHP scripts are running. You can use these functions to format the
date and time in many different ways.
Note:
Please keep in mind that these functions are dependent on
the locale settings of your server. Make sure to take
daylight saving time and leap years into consideration when working
with these functions.
No external libraries are needed to build this extension.
There is no installation needed to use these
functions; they are part of the PHP core.
This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.
This extension has no resource types defined.
This extension has no constants defined.
Table of Contents
- checkdate - Validate a gregorian date
- date - Format a local time/date
- getdate - Get date/time information
- gettimeofday - Get current time
- gmdate - Format a GMT/UTC date/time
- gmmktime - Get UNIX timestamp for a GMT date
- gmstrftime -
Format a GMT/UTC time/date according to locale settings
- localtime - Get the local time
- microtime -
Return current UNIX timestamp with microseconds
- mktime - Get UNIX timestamp for a date
- strftime -
Format a local time/date according to locale settings
- strtotime -
Parse about any English textual datetime description into a UNIX
timestamp
- time - Return current UNIX timestamp