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 (use e.g.
$date = strtotime('+7 days', $date) and not
$date += 7*24*60*60)
and leap years into consideration when working
with these functions.
Note:
The timezones referenced in this section can be found in the
Appendix H.
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.
Note:
The latest version of the timezone database can be installed via PECL's
timezonedb. For
Windows users, a pre-compiled DLL can be downloaded from the PECL4Win
site: php_timezonedb.dll.
This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.
The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.
Table 1. Date/Time Configuration Options
Name | Default | Changeable | Changelog |
---|
date.default_latitude | "31.7667" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 5.0.0. |
date.default_longitude | "35.2333" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 5.0.0. |
date.sunrise_zenith | "90.83" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 5.0.0. |
date.sunset_zenith | "90.83" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 5.0.0. |
date.timezone | "" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 5.1.0. |
For further details and definitions of the
PHP_INI_* constants, see the
Appendix G.
Here's a short explanation of
the configuration directives.
- date.default_latitude
float
The default latitude.
- date.default_longitude
float
The default longitude.
- date.sunrise_zenith
float
The default sunrise zenith.
- date.sunset_zenith
float
The default sunset zenith.
- date.timezone
string
The default timezone used by all date/time functions if the
TZ environment variable isn't set. The precedence
order is described in the date_default_timezone_get()
page. See Appendix H for a list of supported timezones.
This extension has no resource types defined.
The following constants are defined since PHP 5.1.1 and they offer standard
date representations, which can be used along with the date format functions
(like date()).
- DATE_ATOM
(string)
Atom (example: 2005-08-15T15:52:01+00:00)
- DATE_COOKIE
(string)
HTTP Cookies (example: Monday, 15-Aug-05 15:52:01 UTC)
- DATE_ISO8601
(string)
ISO-8601 (example: 2005-08-15T15:52:01+0000)
- DATE_RFC822
(string)
RFC 822 (example: Mon, 15 Aug 05 15:52:01 +0000)
- DATE_RFC850
(string)
RFC 850 (example: Monday, 15-Aug-05 15:52:01 UTC)
- DATE_RFC1036
(string)
RFC 1036 (example: Mon, 15 Aug 05 15:52:01 +0000)
- DATE_RFC1123
(string)
RFC 1123 (example: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:52:01 +0000)
- DATE_RFC2822
(string)
RFC 2822 (Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:52:01 +0000)
- DATE_RSS
(string)
RSS (Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:52:01 +0000)
- DATE_W3C
(string)
World Wide Web Consortium (example: 2005-08-15T15:52:01+00:00)