PHP getdate function

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getdate

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

getdate — Get date/time informationDescriptionarray getdate ( [int timestamp] )

Returns an associative array containing the date
information of the timestamp, or the current
local time if no timestamp is given.

Parameters

timestamp

The optional timestamp parameter is an
integer Unix timestamp that defaults to the current
local time if a timestamp is not given. In other
words, it defaults to the value of time().

Return Values

Returns an associative array of information related to
the typestamp. Elements from the returned
associative array are as follows:

Table 1. Key elements of the returned associative array

KeyDescriptionExample returned values”seconds”Numeric representation of seconds0 to 59″minutes”Numeric representation of minutes0 to 59″hours”Numeric representation of hours0 to 23″mday”Numeric representation of the day of the month1 to 31″wday”Numeric representation of the day of the week0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)”mon”Numeric representation of a month1 through 12″year”A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digitsExamples: 1999 or 2003″yday”Numeric representation of the day of the year0 through 365″weekday”A full textual representation of the day of the weekSunday through Saturday”month”A full textual representation of a month, such as January or MarchJanuary through December0 Seconds since the Unix Epoch, similar to the values returned by
time() and used by date().
System Dependent, typically -2147483648 through
2147483647.

Examples

Example 1. getdate() example

The above example will output
something similar to:

Array
(
[seconds] => 40
[minutes] => 58
[hours] => 21
[mday] => 17
[wday] => 2
[mon] => 6
[year] => 2003
[yday] => 167
[weekday] => Tuesday
[month] => June
[0] => 1055901520
)

See Also

date()time()setlocale()