DateTimeInterface::format

DateTimeImmutable::format

DateTime::format

date_format

(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DateTimeInterface::format -- DateTimeImmutable::format -- DateTime::format -- date_format — Returns date formatted according to given format

Descrizione

Stile orientato agli oggetti

public DateTimeInterface::format(string $format): string

public DateTimeImmutable::format(string $format): string

public DateTime::format(string $format): string

Stile procedurale

date_format(DateTimeInterface $object, string $format): string

Returns date formatted according to given format.

Elenco dei parametri

oggetto

Solo per lo stile procedurale: Un oggetto DateTime restituito da date_create()

format

The format of the outputted date string. See the formatting options below. There are also several predefined date constants that may be used instead, so for example DATE_RSS contains the format string 'D, d M Y H:i:s'.

**The following characters are recognized in the `format` parameter string**
`format` character	Description	Example returned values
Day	---	---
`d`	Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros	`01` to `31`
`D`	A textual representation of a day, three letters	`Mon` through `Sun`
`j`	Day of the month without leading zeros	`1` to `31`
`l` (lowercase 'L')	A full textual representation of the day of the week	`Sunday` through `Saturday`
`N`	ISO 8601 numeric representation of the day of the 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 representation of the day of the week	`0` (for Sunday) through `6` (for Saturday)
`z`	The day of the year (starting from 0)	`0` through `365`
Week	---	---
`W`	ISO 8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday	Example: `42` (the 42nd week in the year)
Month	---	---
`F`	A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March	`January` through `December`
`m`	Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros	`01` through `12`
`M`	A short textual representation of a month, three letters	`Jan` through `Dec`
`n`	Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros	`1` through `12`
`t`	Number of days in the given month	`28` through `31`
Year	---	---
`L`	Whether it's a leap year	`1` if it is a leap year, `0` otherwise.
`o`	ISO 8601 week-numbering year. This has the same value as `Y`, except that if the ISO week number (`W`) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead.	Examples: `1999` or `2003`
`X`	An expanded full numeric representation of a year, at least 4 digits, with `-` for years BCE, and `+` for years CE.	Examples: `-0055`, `+0787`, `+1999`, `+10191`
`x`	An expanded full numeric representation if required, or a standard full numeral representation if possible (like `Y`). At least four digits. Years BCE are prefixed with a `-`. Years beyond (and including) `10000` are prefixed by a `+`.	Examples: `-0055`, `0787`, `1999`, `+10191`
`Y`	A full numeric representation of a year, at least 4 digits, with `-` for years BCE.	Examples: `-0055`, `0787`, `1999`, `2003`, `10191`
`y`	A two digit representation of a year	Examples: `99` or `03`
Time	---	---
`a`	Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem	`am` or `pm`
`A`	Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem	`AM` or `PM`
`B`	Swatch Internet time	`000` through `999`
`g`	12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros	`1` through `12`
`G`	24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros	`0` through `23`
`h`	12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros	`01` through `12`
`H`	24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros	`00` through `23`
`i`	Minutes with leading zeros	`00` to `59`
`s`	Seconds with leading zeros	`00` through `59`
`u`	Microseconds. Note that date() will always generate `000000` since it takes an int parameter, whereas DateTime::format() does support microseconds if DateTime was created with microseconds.	Example: `654321`
`v`	Milliseconds. Same note applies as for `u`.	Example: `654`
Timezone	---	---
`e`	Timezone identifier	Examples: `UTC`, `GMT`, `Atlantic/Azores`
`I` (capital i)	Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time	`1` if Daylight Saving Time, `0` otherwise.
`O`	Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) without colon between hours and minutes	Example: `+0200`
`P`	Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes	Example: `+02:00`
`p`	The same as `P`, but returns `Z` instead of `+00:00` (available as of PHP 8.0.0)	Examples: `Z` or `+02:00`
`T`	Timezone abbreviation, if known; otherwise the GMT offset.	Examples: `EST`, `MDT`, `+05`
`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/» RFC 5322 formatted date	Example: `Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200`
`U`	Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)	See also time()

Unrecognized characters in the format string will be printed as-is. The Z format will always return 0 when using gmdate().

Nota:
Since this function only accepts int timestamps the u format character is only useful when using the date_format() function with user based timestamps created with date_create().

Valori restituiti

Returns the formatted date string on success.

Log delle modifiche

Versione	Descrizione
8.2.0	The format characters `X` and `x` have been added.
8.0.0	The format character `p` has been added.

Esempi

Example #1 DateTimeInterface::format() example

Stile orientato agli oggetti

<?php
$date = new DateTimeImmutable('2000-01-01');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
?>

Stile procedurale

<?php
$date = date_create('2000-01-01');
echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d H:i:s');
?>

Il precedente esempio visualizzerà:

2000-01-01 00:00:00

Example #2 More examples

<?php
// set the default timezone to use.
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

// now
$date = new DateTimeImmutable();

// Prints something like: Wednesday
echo $date->format('l'), "\n";

// Prints something like: Wednesday 19th of October 2022 08:40:48 AM
echo $date->format('l jS \o\f F Y h:i:s A'), "\n";

/* use the constants in the format parameter */
// prints something like: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 08:40:48 +0000
echo $date->format(DateTimeInterface::RFC2822), "\n";
?>

You can prevent a recognized character in the format string from being expanded by escaping it with a preceding backslash. If the character with a backslash is already a special sequence, you may need to also escape the backslash.

Example #3 Escaping characters while formatting

<?php
$date = new DateTimeImmutable();

// prints something like: Wednesday the 19th
echo $date->format('l \t\h\e jS');
?>

To format dates in other languages, IntlDateFormatter::format() can be used instead of DateTimeInterface::format().

Note

This method does not use locales. All output is in English.

Vedere anche:

IntlDateFormatter::format() - Format the date/time value as a string

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User Contributed Notes 10 notes

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craig dot constable at gmail dot com ¶

12 years ago


Using a datetime field from a mysql database e.g. "2012-03-24 17:45:12"

<?php

$result = mysql_query("SELECT `datetime` FROM `table`");
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
$date = date_create($row[0]);

echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d H:i:s');
#output: 2012-03-24 17:45:12

echo date_format($date, 'd/m/Y H:i:s');
#output: 24/03/2012 17:45:12

echo date_format($date, 'd/m/y');
#output: 24/03/12

echo date_format($date, 'g:i A');
#output: 5:45 PM

echo date_format($date, 'G:ia');
#output: 05:45pm

echo date_format($date, 'g:ia \o\n l jS F Y');
#output: 5:45pm on Saturday 24th March 2012

?>

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soul dot enforcer at gmail dot com ¶

10 years ago


For full reference of the supported format character and results,
see the documentation of date() :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

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mesa dot fx at gmail dot com ¶

5 years ago


There is a bit confusing logic may appear using year week number:

<?php
echo (new \DateTime("2018-12-31 13:05:21"))->format("YW") . PHP_EOL;
?>

will output 201801, not 201901 nor 201852, because of strange ISO_8601-2004 standard: the  first  calendar  week  of  a  year  is  that  one  which  includes  the  first  Thursday  of  that  year, so this date (it is Monday) do belong to the first week of 2019 (this is why 'W' format gives 01), but internal timestamp is of 2018 (and 'Y' format obey this), therefore getting us unexpected result of 201801. So be careful when using this output with something important (i know projects where this was used to form MySQL partitions).

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sparcbr at gmail dot com ¶

4 years ago


To add literal characteres youi can escape with backslash (\):

$date = new DateTime();
echo $date->format('Ymd\Thms');

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daysnine at gmail dot com ¶

11 years ago


Seems like datetime::format does not really support microseconds as the documentation under date suggest it will.

Here is some code to generate a datetime with microseconds and timezone:

private function udate($format = 'u', $utimestamp = null) {
        if (is_null($utimestamp))
            $utimestamp = microtime(true);

        $timestamp = floor($utimestamp);
        $milliseconds = round(($utimestamp - $timestamp) * 1000000);

        return date(preg_replace('`(?<!\\\\)u`', $milliseconds, $format), $timestamp);
    }

echo udate('Y-m-d H:i:s.u T');
// Will output something like: 2014-01-01 12:20:24.42342 CET

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tuxedobob ¶

4 years ago


I'm actually not sure whether this is a bug, but here's something that tripped me up on PHP 7.3.

I have a date that looks like this: 'November 3, 2020 11:13 (CST)'

I tried to format it using this format string: 'F j, Y H:i (T)'

That didn't work.

What *did* work was the format string without the parentheses: 'F j, Y H:i T'. 

This string also parsed the timezone when the time zone *didn't* have parentheses surrounding it: 'November 3, 2020 11:13 CST'.

It seems as though the T token is a little greedy with surrounding parentheses, so don't include them in your format string.

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ca at agercon dot dk ¶

13 years ago


The date_format can be use to get the last day of February:

<?php 

function last_day_of_feb ($year) {
# The 0th day of a month is the same as the last day of the month before
        $ultimo_feb_str = $year . "-03-00"; 
        $ultimo_feb_date = date_create($ultimo_feb_str);
        $return = date_format($ultimo_feb_date, "Y-m-d");
        return $return;
}

echo last_day_of_feb(2011) . "\n"; # 2011-02-28
echo last_day_of_feb(2012) . "\n"; # 2011-02-29

?>

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prussell at cloudworksconsulting dot com ¶

10 years ago


The udate function is a great start, but the formatting of the milliseconds is a little off. If it is within the first 100000 microseconds then the string will be less than 6 characters, so 0.012435 will appear as 0.12345. The revision below fixes this.

function udate($strFormat = 'u', $uTimeStamp = null)
{

    // If the time wasn't provided then fill it in
    if (is_null($uTimeStamp))
    {
        $uTimeStamp = microtime(true);
    }

    // Round the time down to the second
    $dtTimeStamp = floor($uTimeStamp);

    // Determine the millisecond value
    $intMilliseconds = round(($uTimeStamp - $dtTimeStamp) * 1000000);
    // Format the milliseconds as a 6 character string
    $strMilliseconds = str_pad($intMilliseconds, 6, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);

    // Replace the milliseconds in the date format string
    // Then use the date function to process the rest of the string
    return date(preg_replace('`(?<!\\\\)u`', $strMilliseconds, $strFormat), $dtTimeStamp);
}

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info at ibusweb dot com ¶

5 years ago


$saved_time="2019-03-09 14:25:20";
    $formated_saved_time = new DateTime($saved_time);
    $current_time = new DateTime();
    $interval = $current_time->diff($formated_saved_time);
  
      if (!empty($interval->format('%a'))){
       $time_difference=$interval->format('%a days ago');
        } elseif ($formated_saved_time->format('d') != $current_time->format('d')){
             $time_difference="yesterday";
             }elseif (!empty($interval->format('%h'))){
                     $time_difference=$interval->format('%h hr, %i min ago');
                     } elseif (!empty($interval->format('%i'))){
                              $time_difference=$interval->format('%i min ago');
                              } elseif (!empty($interval->format('%s'))){
                                $time_difference=$interval->format('%s sec ago');
  } 

output ----- posted 4 hr, 12 min ago at 2019-03-09 14:25:20

see the code in action here 
https://eval.in/1081921

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chris at codewiz dot biz ¶

10 years ago


I believe this is a bug but its note-worthy if it is intended (I am using PHP 5.5.3).

$ php --version

PHP Warning:  Module 'xdebug' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.1 (cli) (built: Dec 12 2013 04:24:35) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.2.3, Copyright (c) 2002-2013, by Derick Rethans
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.3-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2013, by Zend Technologies

What is happening:

DateTime()->format() will modify the timezone. So do not expect the public date property to be returned (format mask applied) based on the current public timezone property. format will decide that when calling ->format() it will use the server timezone which eliminates all usefulness of ->setTimezone().

<?php
            $nowUtc = new \DateTime( 'now',  new \DateTimeZone( 'UTC' ) );
            echo '$nowUtc'.PHP_EOL;
            var_dump($nowUtc);
            $nowUtc = new \DateTime( 'now',  new \DateTimeZone( 'UTC' ) );
            echo '$nowUtc->format(\'Y-m-d h:i:s\')'.PHP_EOL;
            var_dump($nowUtc->format('Y-m-d h:i:s'));
            $nowUtc->setTimezone( new \DateTimeZone( 'Australia/Sydney' ) );
            echo '$nowUtc->setTimezone( new \DateTimeZone( \'Australia/Sydney\' ) )'.PHP_EOL;
            var_dump($nowUtc);
            echo '$nowUtc->format(\'Y-m-d h:i:s\')'.PHP_EOL;
            var_dump($nowUtc->format('Y-m-d h:i:s'));exit;
?>

outputs;

$nowUtc

object(DateTime)[2607]
  public 'date' => string '2014-02-13 02:42:48' (length=19)
  public 'timezone_type' => int 3
  public 'timezone' => string 'UTC' (length=3)

$nowUtc->format('Y-m-d h:i:s')

string '2014-02-13 02:42:48' (length=19)

$nowUtc->setTimezone( new \DateTimeZone( 'Australia/Sydney' ) )

object(DateTime)[2608]
  public 'date' => string '2014-02-13 13:42:48' (length=19)
  public 'timezone_type' => int 3
  public 'timezone' => string 'Australia/Sydney' (length=16)

$nowUtc->format('Y-m-d h:i:s')

string '2014-02-13 01:42:48' (length=19) // expected 2014-02-13 13:42:48 based on Australia/Sydney - what is 2014-02-13 01:42:48 from anyway!

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