PHP Date Exercises : Get the current date/time of 'Australia/Melbourne'

PHP date: Exercise-14 with Solution

Write a PHP script to get the current date/time of 'Australia/Melbourne'.

Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
$date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());
echo $date;
?>

Output:

07/11/2017 12:52:31 am 

N.B.: The result may varry for your system date and time.

Explanation:

In the exercise above,

• date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');: Setting the default timezone to 'America/Los_Angeles' to ensure that the date and time are displayed in the Pacific Time Zone.
• $date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());: Get the current date and time using the date() function with the specified format 'm/d/Y h:i:s a', where:
• 'm' represents the month (01 to 12)
• 'd' represents the day of the month (01 to 31)
• 'Y' represents the year (e.g., 2017)
• 'h' represents the hour in 12-hour format (01 to 12)
• 'i' represents the minutes (00 to 59)
• 's' represents seconds (00 to 59)
• 'a' represents lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem (am or pm)
• echo $date: Outputs the formatted date and time.

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