PHP Date/Time Functions
Function Description
checkdate() Validates a Gregorian date
date_add() Adds days, months, years, hours, minutes, and seconds
to a date
date_create_from_format() Returns a new DateTime object formatted according to a
specified format
date_create() Returns a new DateTime object
date_date_set() Sets a new date
date_default_timezone_get() Returns the default timezone used by all date/time
functions
date_default_timezone_set() Sets the default timezone used by all date/time functions
date_diff() Returns the difference between two dates
date_format() Returns a date formatted according to a specified format
date_get_last_errors() Returns the warnings/errors found in a date string
date_interval_create_from_date_stri Sets up a DateInterval from the relative parts of the
ng() string
date_interval_format() Formats the interval
date_isodate_set() Sets the ISO date
date_modify() Modifies the timestamp
date_offset_get() Returns the timezone offset
date_parse_from_format() Returns an associative array with detailed info about a
specified date, according to a specified format
date_parse() Returns an associative array with detailed info about a
specified date
date_sub() Subtracts days, months, years, hours, minutes, and
seconds from a date
date_sun_info() Returns an array containing info about sunset/sunrise
and twilight begin/end, for a specified day and location
date_sunrise() Returns the sunrise time for a specified day and location
date_sunset() Returns the sunset time for a specified day and location
date_time_set() Sets the time
date_timestamp_get() Returns the Unix timestamp
date_timestamp_set() Sets the date and time based on a Unix timestamp
date_timezone_get() Returns the time zone of the given DateTime object
date_timezone_set() Sets the time zone for the DateTime object
date() Formats a local date and time
getdate() Returns date/time information of a timestamp or the
current local date/time
gettimeofday() Returns the current time
gmdate() Formats a GMT/UTC date and time
gmmktime() Returns the Unix timestamp for a GMT date
gmstrftime() Formats a GMT/UTC date and time according to locale
settings
idate() Formats a local time/date as integer
localtime() Returns the local time
microtime() Returns the current Unix timestamp with microseconds
mktime() Returns the Unix timestamp for a date
strftime() Formats a local time and/or date according to locale
settings
strptime() Parses a time/date generated with strftime()
strtotime() Parses an English textual datetime into a Unix timestamp
time() Returns the current time as a Unix timestamp
timezone_abbreviations_list() Returns an associative array containing dst, offset, and
the timezone name
timezone_identifiers_list() Returns an indexed array with all timezone identifiers
timezone_location_get() Returns location information for a specified timezone
timezone_name_from_ abbr() Returns the timezone name from abbreviation
timezone_name_get() Returns the name of the timezone
timezone_offset_get() Returns the timezone offset from GMT
timezone_open() Creates new DateTimeZone object
timezone_transitions_get() Returns all transitions for the timezone
timezone_version_get() Returns the version of the timezonedb
PHP Predefined Date/Time Constants
Constant Description
DATE_ATOM Atom (example: 2019-01-18T14:13:03+00:00)
DATE_COOKIE HTTP Cookies (example: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:13:03 UTC)
DATE_ISO8601 ISO-8601 (example: 2019-01-18T14:13:03+0000)
DATE_RFC822 RFC 822 (example: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:13:03 +0000)
DATE_RFC850 RFC 850 (example: Friday, 18-Jan-19 14:13:03 UTC)
DATE_RFC1036 RFC 1036 (example: Friday, 18-Jan-19 14:13:03 +0000)
DATE_RFC1123 RFC 1123 (example: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:13:03 +0000)
DATE_RFC2822 RFC 2822 (example: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:13:03 +0000)
DATE_RFC3339 Same as DATE_ATOM (since PHP 5.1.3)
DATE_RFC3339_EXTEND RFC3339 Extended format (since PHP 7.0.0) (example: 2019-01-
ED 18T16:34:01.000+00:00)
DATE_RSS RSS (Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:13:03 +0000)
DATE_W3C World Wide Web Consortium (example: 2019-01-
18T14:13:03+00:00)
SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTA Timestamp (since PHP 5.1.2)
MP
SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING Hours:minutes (example: 09:41) (since PHP 5.1.2)
SUNFUNCS_RET_DOUBLE Hours as a floating point number (example: 9.75) (since PHP
5.1.2)
