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Name

getdate — Gets date and time information for a UNIX timestamp.

Synopsis

array getdate(time); int time: Time in UNIX time format

Returns

Array containing date/time information

Description

getdate() creates an array of 10 elements containing most of the relevant information needed when formatting a date string. It can be very useful when combined with mktime() or date() . The array contains the following keys:

seconds: seconds
minutes: minutes
hours: hours
mday: day of the month (numeric)
wday: day of the week (numeric)
year: year
yday: day of the year (numeric)
weekday: name of the weekday; for example, Tuesday
month: name of the month; for example, April

Version

PHP 3, PHP 4

Example

Example 199. Print the current date and time

$my_time = getdate(date('U'));
print("At the tone the time will be: ");
print("$my_time[weekday], $my_time[month] $my_time[mday], $my_time[year]");

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