idate() function in PHP

The idate() function formats a local time/date as integer.

Syntax

idate(format, timestamp)

Parameters

timestamp − 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().
format − It specifies how to return the result
- B − Swatch Beat/Internet Time
- d − Day of the month
- h − Hour (12 hour format)
- H − Hour (24 hour format)
- i − Minutes
- I − returns 1 if DST (daylight saving time) is activated, 0 otherwise
- L − returns 1 for leap year, 0 otherwise
- m − Month number
- s − Seconds
- t − Days in current month
- U − Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)
- w − Day of the week (Sunday=0)
- W − ISO-8601 week number of year (week starts on Monday)
- y − Year (1 or 2 digits)
- Y − Year (4 digits)
- z − Day of the year
- Z − Timezone offset in seconds

Return

The idate() function returns an integer and as they can't start with a "0", idate() may return fewer digits than you would expect.

Example

The following is an example −

<?php
   $timestamp = strtotime('2nd December 2017'); echo idate('y', $timestamp); echo"\n"; echo idate('t', $timestamp);
?>

Output

17
31

Example

Let us see an example −

<?php
   echo idate("d") . "<br>";
   echo idate("h") . "<br>";
   echo idate("y") . "<br>";
   echo idate("Y") . "<br>";
   echo idate("z") . "<br>";
   echo idate("Z") . "<br>";
?>

Output