PHP Date Exercises : Get the current date in Italian

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25. Current Date in Italian

Write a PHP script to get the current date in Italian.

Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
// Set the locale to Italian and store the previous locale
$old_Locale = setlocale(LC_TIME, 'it_IT');

// Get the current date and time formatted according to the Italian locale
// The strftime function is used to format the date and time according to the specified format
echo strftime("Today is %a on %b %d, %Y")."\n";

// Restore the previous locale
setlocale(LC_TIME, $old_Locale);
?>

Output:

Today is Tue on Jul 11, 2017

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

Explanation:

In the exercise above,

$old_Locale = setlocale(LC_TIME, 'it_IT');: Sets the locale to Italian (it_IT) for date and time functions and stores the previous locale in the variable '$old_Locale'.
echo strftime("Today is %a on %b %d, %Y")."\n";: Uses the "strftime()" function to format the current date and time according to the Italian locale, using the specified format string. The format string '%a' represents the abbreviated weekday name, '%b' represents the abbreviated month name, '%d' represents the day of the month, and '%Y' represents the year in four digits.
setlocale(LC_TIME, $old_Locale);: Restores the previous locale.

Flowchart :

Flowchart: Get the current date in Italian

For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

Write a PHP script to display the current date in Italian by mapping month and day names to their Italian equivalents.
Write a PHP function to translate the current date into Italian and output it with custom formatting.
Write a PHP program to fetch the current date, convert the month to Italian using an associative array, and output the full formatted date.
Write a PHP script to dynamically generate and display a date string in Italian, ensuring proper accentuation and capitalization.

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