php.js: gmdate() function

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gmdate() function

The gmdate() function is used to get a formatted GMT date/time.

Version:

1103.1210

Syntax:

gmdate(format, timestamp)

Parameters:

Name	Description	Required / Optional	Type
format	Day : d - Numeric day of the month with leading zeros (01 to 31) D - Short day abbreviation (three letters). Mon through Sun.. j - Day of the month without leading zeros ( 1 to 31) `l` (lowercase 'L') - Full day name (`Sunday` through `Saturday`) N - ISO-8601 numeric representation of a day of a week (1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday). S - English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters (`st`, `nd`, `rd` or `th`. Works well with `j`) w - Numeric day of the week. (0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) z - Numeric day of the year (0 to 365) Week: W - ISO-8601 numeric representation of week number of year. Week starting from Monday Month : F - Full month name. (January through December) m - Numeric representation of a month with leading zeros (01 to 12) M - Short month abbreviation (three letters). `Jan` through `Dec` n - Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros (1 through 12) t -Number of days of a specified month (28 through 31) Year : L - Whether it's a leap year (set 1 if leap year otherwise 0) o - ISO-8601 year number Y - Numeric year value in 4 digits (1999) y - Numeric year value in two digits (1999 as 99) Time : a - Lowercase am or pm. A - Uppercase AM or PM. B - Swatch Internet time (000 through 999) g - 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros (1 to 12) G - 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros (0 to 23) h - 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros (01 to 12) H - 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros(00 to 23) i - Minutes with leading zeros (00 to 59) s - Seconds, with leading zeros (00 to 59) u - Microseconds(numeric value) Example : 574925 Timezone : e - The timezone identifier (Examples: UTC, Atlantic/Azores) I - Whether the date is in daylights savings time (set 1 for Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise) O - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours (Example: +0300). p - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with a colon between hours and minutes (Example: +03:00). T - Timezone abbreviation. (Examples: EST, MDT) Z - Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive. (-43200 through 50400). Full Date/Time : c - ISO 8601 date (2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00) r - RFC 2822 formatted date. (`Thu, 22 Jan 2005 16:01:07 +0200`) U - Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)	Optional	String
timestamp	An integer indicates the unixtimestamp. If a timestamp is not supplied, it gives the current local time.	Optional	integer

Example of php.js gmdate() function.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>php.js : gmdate() function example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../phpjs/date/datetime.min.js"> </script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: green">php.js : gmdate() function example</h1>
<h3>Current GMT date/time format</h3>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
document.write("Current GMT time is  " +gmdate("l F dS Y, H:i")+"<br />");
//For the following format return value depend on your timezone.
document.write(gmdate('H:m:s a', 1062402300));
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output of the function:

Current GMT time is  Tuesday July 05th 2011, 05:23
07:09:00 am

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