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PHP Date/Time Cheat Sheet
December 07, 20202 MIN READ
PHP uses the standard UNIX timestamp, which is the number of seconds since the start of January 1, 1970.
Date/Time appear in different parts of our application, be it a blog application, membership or forum website and so on.
The table below shows the different ways we can format date/time in PHP.
| format | description | value |
|---|---|---|
| z | day of the year | 01 to 365 |
| N | day of the week from Monday to Sunday | 1 to 7 |
| j | day of the month with no leading zero | 1 to 31 |
| S | Suffix for the day of the month | st, nd, rd or th |
| d | two digit day of the month with leading zero | 01 to 31 |
| D | three letters day of the week | Mon to Sun |
| l | full names of the day of the week | Sunday to Saturday |
| W | number of the week of the year | 01 to 52 |
| y | year in two digit | 00 to 99 |
| Y | year in four digit | 0000 to 9999 |
| t | number of days in a specific month | 28 to 31 |
| F | full name of the month | January to December |
| m | number of the month with leading zero | 01 to 12 |
| M | names of the month in three letters | Jan to Dec |
| n | number of the month with no leading zero | 1 to 12 |
| w | day of the week from Sunday to Saturday | 0 to 6 |
| i | minutes with leading zero | 00 to 59 |
| s | Seconds | 00 t0 59 |
| A | uppercase | AM to PM |
| a | lowercase | am to pm |
| g | 12-hour format with no leading zero | 1 to 12 |
| G | 24-hour format with no leading zero | 0 to 23 |
| h | 12-hour format with leading zero | 01 to 12 |
| H | 24-hour format with leading zero | 00 to 23 |
For further reading check out the PHP date/time documentation