Date and Time

• Introduction
• Installing/Configuring
  • Installation
  • Runtime Configuration
  • Resource Types
• Predefined Constants
• List of Supported Timezones
  • Africa
  • America
  • Antarctica
  • Arctic
  • Asia
  • Atlantic
  • Australia
  • Europe
  • Indian
  • Pacific
  • Others
• Date/Time Functions
  • checkdate — Validate a Gregorian date
  • date_add — Adds an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds to a DateTime object
  • date_create — Returns new DateTime object
  • date_date_set — Sets the date
  • date_default_timezone_get — Gets the default timezone used by all date/time functions in a script
  • date_default_timezone_set — Sets the default timezone used by all date/time functions in a script
  • date_format — Returns date formatted according to given format
  • date_isodate_set — Sets the ISO date
  • date_modify — Alters the timestamp
  • date_offset_get — Returns the daylight saving time offset
  • date_parse — Returns associative array with detailed info about given date
  • date_sub — Subtracts an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds from a DateTime object
  • date_sun_info — Returns an array with information about sunset/sunrise and twilight begin/end
  • date_sunrise — Returns time of sunrise for a given day and location
  • date_sunset — Returns time of sunset for a given day and location
  • date_time_set — Sets the time
  • date_timezone_get — Return time zone relative to given DateTime
  • date_timezone_set — Sets the time zone for the DateTime object
  • date — Format a local time/date
  • getdate — Get date/time information
  • gettimeofday — Get current time
  • gmdate — Format a GMT/UTC date/time
  • gmmktime — Get Unix timestamp for a GMT date
  • gmstrftime — Format a GMT/UTC time/date according to locale settings
  • idate — Format a local time/date as integer
  • localtime — Get the local time
  • microtime — Return current Unix timestamp with microseconds
  • mktime — Get Unix timestamp for a date
  • strftime — Format a local time/date according to locale settings
  • strptime — Parse a time/date generated with strftime
  • strtotime — Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp
  • time — Return current Unix timestamp
  • timezone_abbreviations_list — Returns associative array containing dst, offset and the timezone name
  • timezone_identifiers_list — Returns numerically index array with all timezone identifiers
  • timezone_name_from_abbr — Returns the timezone name from abbrevation
  • timezone_name_get — Returns the name of the timezone
  • timezone_offset_get — Returns the timezone offset from GMT
  • timezone_open — Returns new DateTimeZone object
  • timezone_transitions_get — Returns all transitions for the timezone

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