<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Date and Time functions</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Function Reference" HREF="funcref.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="dba_sync" HREF="function.dba-sync.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="checkdate" HREF="function.checkdate.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="reference" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dba-sync.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.checkdate.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="reference" ><A NAME="ref.datetime" ></A ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="title" >XVIII. Date and Time functions</H1 ><DIV CLASS="PARTINTRO" ><A NAME="AEN16394" ></A ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="datetime.intro" ></A >Introduction</H1 ><P > 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. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > 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. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="datetime.required" ></A >Requirements</H1 ><P >No external libraries are needed to build this extension.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="datetime.installation" ></A >Installation</H1 ><P >There is no installation needed to use these functions; they are part of the PHP core.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="datetime.runtime" ></A >Runtime Configuration</H1 ><P >This extension has no configuration directives defined in <TT CLASS="filename" >php.ini</TT >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="datetime.resources" ></A >Resource Types</H1 ><P >This extension has no resource types defined.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="datetime.constants" ></A >Predefined Constants</H1 ><P >This extension has no constants defined.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.checkdate.html" >checkdate</A > -- Validate a gregorian date</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.date.html" >date</A > -- Format a local time/date</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.getdate.html" >getdate</A > -- Get date/time information</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.gettimeofday.html" >gettimeofday</A > -- Get current time</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.gmdate.html" >gmdate</A > -- Format a GMT/CUT date/time</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.gmmktime.html" >gmmktime</A > -- Get UNIX timestamp for a GMT date</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.gmstrftime.html" >gmstrftime</A > -- Format a GMT/CUT time/date according to locale settings </DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.localtime.html" >localtime</A > -- Get the local time</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.microtime.html" >microtime</A > -- Return current UNIX timestamp with microseconds</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.mktime.html" >mktime</A > -- Get UNIX timestamp for a date</DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.strftime.html" >strftime</A > -- Format a local time/date according to locale settings </DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.strtotime.html" >strtotime</A > -- Parse about any English textual datetime description into a UNIX timestamp </DT ><DT ><A HREF="function.time.html" >time</A > -- Return current UNIX timestamp</DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dba-sync.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.checkdate.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >dba_sync</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="funcref.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >checkdate</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >