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One of the most common PHP functions is the current date and time. Below you will find information on this.

Current Time and Date Calculations:

$timestamp = time() : $timestamp : 1250074974 $local = localtime() : seconds : $local[0] : 54 minutes : $local[1] : 2 hours (24hr) : $local[2] : 12 day: $local[3] : 12 month (0-11) : $local[4] : 7 (+1 for usual format) year (+1900) : $local[5] : 109 (+1900 for usual format) day of week (0-6) : $local[6] : 3 day of year (0-364) : $local[7] : 223 timezone (+/-): $local[8] : 1 getdate($timestamp) : seconds : $local["seconds"] : 54 minutes : $local["minutes"] : 2 hours : $local["hours"] : 12 mday : $local["mday"] : 12 wday : $local["wday"] : 3 mon : $local["mon"] : 8 year : $local["year"] : 2009 yday : $local["yday"] : 223 weekday : $local["weekday"] : Wednesday month : $local["month"] : August timestamp : $local[0] : 1250074974

Alternatively, you can convert any timestamp (past,present or future) directly into a formatted string.
Use either strftime() or date () :
%a - abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale :

%A - full weekday name according to the current locale

%b - abbreviated month name according to the current locale

%B - full month name according to the current locale

%c - preferred date and time representation for the current locale

%C - century number (the year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer, range 00 to 99).