isoZ

Full ISO8601 format

equivalent to Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z

b

Whether the date is today

1 if the date is today, 0 otherwise

e

Weekday letter

#xxxx

b2evo preset format

Possible values:

• #short_date: resolves to the current locale date format
• #long_date: resolves to the current locale long date format
• #extended_date: resolves to the current locale extended date format
• #short_time: resolves to the current locale short time format
• #long_time: resolves to the current locale time format
• #short_date_time: resolves to the current locale date format

See Locales Tab for more information about the locales installed and the corresponding date/time formats associated with each locale.

d

Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros

01 to 31

D

A textual representation of a day, three letters

Mon through Sun

j

Day of the month without leading zeros

1 to 31

l (lowercase L)

A full textual representation of the day of the week

Sunday through Saturday

N

ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week (added in PHP 5.1.0)

1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday)

S

English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters

st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j

w

Numeric representation of the day of the week

0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)

z

The day of the year (starting from 0)

0 through 365

W

ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday

Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year)

F

A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March

January through December

m

Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros

01 through 12

M

A short textual representation of a month, three letters

Jan through Dec

n

Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros

1 through 12

t

Number of days in the given month

28 through 31

L

Whether it’s a leap year

1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise.

o

ISO-8601 week-numbering year. This has the same value as Y, except that if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. (added in PHP 5.1.0)

Examples: 1999 or 2003

Y

A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits

Examples: 1999 or 2003

y

A two-digit representation of a year

Examples: 99 or 03

a

Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem

am or pm

A

Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem

AM or PM

B

Swatch Internet time

000 through 999

g

12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros

1 through 12

G

24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros

0 through 23

h

12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros

01 through 12

H

24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros

00 through 23

i

Minutes with leading zeros

00 to 59

s

Seconds with leading zeros

00 through 59

u

Microseconds (added in PHP 5.2.2). Note that date() will always generate 000000 since it takes an integer parameter, whereas DateTime::format() does support microseconds if DateTime was created with microseconds.

Example: 654321

v

Milliseconds (added in PHP 7.0.0). The same note applies as for u.

Example: 654

e

Timezone identifier (added in PHP 5.1.0)

Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores

I (capital i)

Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time

1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise.

O

Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) without colon between hours and minutes

Example: +0200

P

Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with a colon between hours and minutes (added in PHP 5.1.3)

Example: +02:00

T

Timezone abbreviation

Examples: EST, MDT

Z

Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for that east of UTC is always positive.

-43200 through 50400

c

ISO 8601 date (added in PHP 5)

2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00

r

RFC 2822 formatted date

Example: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200

U

Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)