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Date and Time Functions
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.
- 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