<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >gmdate</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="Date and Time functions" HREF="ref.datetime.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="gettimeofday" HREF="function.gettimeofday.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="gmmktime" HREF="function.gmmktime.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" 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.gettimeofday.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.gmmktime.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.gmdate" ></A >gmdate</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN16801" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >gmdate -- Format a GMT/CUT date/time</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN16804" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >gmdate</B > ( string format [, int timestamp])<BR ></BR ><P > Identical to the <A HREF="function.date.html" ><B CLASS="function" >date()</B ></A > function except that the time returned is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For example, when run in Finland (GMT +0200), the first line below prints "Jan 01 1998 00:00:00", while the second prints "Dec 31 1997 22:00:00". <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN16817" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >gmdate()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >echo date ("M d Y H:i:s", mktime (0,0,0,1,1,1998)); echo gmdate ("M d Y H:i:s", mktime (0,0,0,1,1,1998));</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.date.html" ><B CLASS="function" >date()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mktime.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mktime()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gmmktime.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gmmktime()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.strftime.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strftime()</B ></A >. </P ></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.gettimeofday.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.gmmktime.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >gettimeofday</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.datetime.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >gmmktime</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >