Date Members

$qaDate['seconds'] = 44
$qaDate['minutes'] = 34
$qaDate['hours'] = 16
$qaDate['mday'] = 12
$qaDate['wday'] = 5
$qaDate['mon'] = 9
$qaDate['year'] = 2025
$qaDate['yday'] = 254
$qaDate['weekday'] = Friday
$qaDate['month'] = September
$qaDate['0'] = 1757712884

Format Options

date(a) = pm - Lowercase am or pm
date(A) = PM - Uppercase AM or PM
date(B) = 940 - Swatch internet time (000 to 999)
date(c) = 2025-09-12T16:34:44-05:00 - The ISO-8601 date (e.g. 2022-10-29T16:42:24-05:00)
date(d) = 12 - The day of the month (01 to 31)
date(D) = Fri - Thrree letter representation of the day of the week (e.g. Sat)
date(e) = America/Chicago - The timezone identifier (e.g. America/Chicago)
date(F) = September - The name of the month (e.g. October)
date(g) = 4 - 12-hour format of an hour (1 to 12)
date(G) = 16 - 24-hour format of an hour (0 to 23)
date(h) = 04 - 12-hour format of an hour (01 to 12)
date(H) = 16 - 24-hour format of an hour (00 to 23)
date(i) = 34 - Minutes with leading zeros (00 to 59)
date(I) = 1 - Daylights Savings Time (1 = Daylight Savings Time, 0 = Standard Time)
date(j) = 12 - The day of the month without leading zeros (1 to 31)
date(l) = Friday - The name of the of a day of the week
date(L) = 0 - Leap year (1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise)
date(m) = 09 - Two digit month number with a leading zero (from 01 to 12)
date(M) = Sep - Abbreviation of the month name (three letters)
date(n) = 9 - A numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros (1 to 12)
date(N) = 5 - The ISO-8601 numeric representation of a day (1 for Monday, 7 for Sunday)
date(o) = 2025 - The ISO-8601 year number
date(O) = -0500 - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours (Example: +0100)
date(p) = -05:00 - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours:minutes (added in PHP 5.1.3)
date(P) = -05:00 - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours:minutes (added in PHP 5.1.3)
date(o) = 2025 - The ISO-8601 year number
date(O) = -0500 - Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours (Example: +0100)
date(r) = Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:34:44 -0500 - The RFC 2822 formatted date (e.g. Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:01:05 +0200)
date(s) = 44 - Seconds, with leading zeros (00 to 59)
date(S) = th - The English ordinal suffix for the day of the month (2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j)
date(t) = 30 - The number of days in the given month
date(T) = CDT - Timezone abbreviations (Examples: EST, MDT)
date(u) = 000000 - Microseconds (added in PHP 5.2.2)
date(U) = 1757712884 - The seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)
date(v) = 000 ???
date(w) = 5 - A numeric representation of the day (0 for Sunday, 6 for Saturday)
date(W) = 37 - The ISO-8601 week number of year (weeks starting on Monday)
date(y) = 25 - A two digit representation of a year
date(Y) = 2025 - A four digit representation of a year
date(z) = 254 - The day of the year (from 0 through 365)
date(Z) = -18000 - Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is negative (-43200 to 50400)

Standard Formats

date(DATE_ATOM) = 2025-09-12T16:34:44-05:00 - Atom
date(DATE_COOKIE) = Friday, 12-Sep-2025 16:34:44 CDT - HTTP Cookies
date(DATE_ISO8601) = 2025-09-12T16:34:44-0500 - ISO-8601
date(DATE_RFC822) = Fri, 12 Sep 25 16:34:44 -0500 - RFC 822
date(DATE_RFC850) = Friday, 12-Sep-25 16:34:44 CDT - RFC 850
date(DATE_RFC1036) = Fri, 12 Sep 25 16:34:44 -0500 - RFC 1036
date(DATE_RFC1123) = Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:34:44 -0500 - RFC 1123
date(DATE_RFC2822) = Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:34:44 -0500 - RFC 2822
date(DATE_RFC3339) = 2025-09-12T16:34:44-05:00 - Same as DATE_ATOM
date(DATE_RSS) = Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:34:44 -0500 - RSS
date(DATE_W3C) = 2025-09-12T16:34:44-05:00 - World Wide Web Consortium

Example Format Usages

date(l jS F Y g:i:s a) = Friday 12th September 2025 4:34:44 pm
Friday the 12th of September 2025 at 4:34:44 pm
date(F jS, Y, mktime(0,0,0,12,25,1054)) = December 25th, 1054
date(DATE_ATOM, $qaDate[0]) = 2025-09-12T16:34:44-05:00