How do I get the current date and time in PHP

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Which PHP function can return the current date time

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For the new PHP programmer might confuse why there are lot of method for to get current date and time and which one to use in their project.

1. date method (PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

This is the very common and very easiest way to get the date and time in php.

// set the default timezone to use. Available since PHP 5.1
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');


// Prints something like: Monday
echo date("l");

// Prints something like: Monday 8th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM
echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');

// Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));

/* use the constants in the format parameter */
// prints something like: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:28:57 -0700
echo date(DATE_RFC2822);

// prints something like: 2000-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
echo date(DATE_ATOM, mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));

You can learn more about it in here

2. DateTime class (PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7)

when you want to use PHP with OOP, this is the best way to get date and time.

<?php
// Specified date/time in your computer's time zone.
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";

// Specified date/time in the specified time zone.
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01', new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Nauru'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";

// Current date/time in your computer's time zone.
$date = new DateTime();
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";

// Current date/time in the specified time zone.
$date = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Nauru'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";

// Using a UNIX timestamp.  Notice the result is in the UTC time zone.
$date = new DateTime('@946684800');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";

// Non-existent values roll over.
$date = new DateTime('2000-02-30');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";
?>

You can learn more about it in here

3. Carbon Date time package

if you are using Composer, Laravel, Symfony or any kinda framework this is the best way to get the date and time. Also this package extends DateTime class in php so you use all the method in Datetime class. This in-built in frameworks like laravel so you don't have to install it separately.

printf("Right now is %s", Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString());
printf("Right now in Vancouver is %s", Carbon::now('America/Vancouver')); // automatically converted to string
$tomorrow = Carbon::now()->addDay();
$lastWeek = Carbon::now()->subWeek();

// Carbon embed 823 languages:
echo $tomorrow->locale('fr')->isoFormat('dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm');
echo $tomorrow->locale('ar')->isoFormat('dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm');

$officialDate = Carbon::now()->toRfc2822String();

$howOldAmI = Carbon::createFromDate(1975, 5, 21)->age;

$noonTodayLondonTime = Carbon::createFromTime(12, 0, 0, 'Europe/London');

$internetWillBlowUpOn = Carbon::create(2038, 01, 19, 3, 14, 7, 'GMT');

if (Carbon::now()->isWeekend()) {
    echo 'Party!';
}
echo Carbon::now()->subMinutes(2)->diffForHumans(); // '2 minutes ago'

You can learn more about it in here

Hope this helps and if you know any other way to get the date and time feel free to edit the answer.

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Simply   date   date  Y-m-d H i s        Or   date   date  Y m d H i s        This would return the date in the following formats respectively   date    2012-03-06 17 33 07      Or  date    2012 03 06 17 33 07            This time is based on the default server time zone     If you want the date in a different time zone     say if you come from Nairobi  Kenya like I do  you can set    the time zone to Nairobi as shown below       date default timezone set  Africa Nairobi        Then call the date functions  date   date  Y-m-d H i s       Or  date   date  Y m d H i s        date default timezone set   function is however    supported by PHP version 5 1 0 or above    For a time-zone reference  see List of Supported Timezones

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lt  php    Assuming today is March 10th  2001  5 16 18 pm  and that we are in the    Mountain Standard Time  MST  Time Zone   today   date  F j  Y  g i a                       March 10  2001  5 16 pm  today   date  m d y                               03 10 01  today   date  j  n  Y                             10  3  2001  today   date  Ymd                                 20010310  today   date  h-i-s  j-m-y  it is w Day           05-16-18  10-03-01  1631 1618 6 Satpm01  today   date   i t  i s  t h e jS  d a y          it is the 10th day   today   date  D M j G i s T Y                     Sat Mar 10 17 16 18 MST 2001  today   date  H m s  m  i s   m o n t h           17 03 18 m is month  today   date  H i s                               17 16 18  today   date  Y-m-d H i s                         2001-03-10 17 16 18  the MySQL DATETIME format    gt

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The time would go by your server time  An easy workaround for this is to manually set the timezone by using date default timezone set before the date   or time   functions are called to   I m in Melbourne  Australia so I have something like this   date default timezone set  Australia Melbourne      Or another example is LA - US   date default timezone set  America Los Angeles      You can also see what timezone the server is currently in via   date default timezone get      So something like    timezone   date default timezone get    echo  The current server timezone is       timezone    So the short answer for your question would be      Change the line below to your timezone  date default timezone set  Australia Melbourne     date   date  m d Y h i s a   time       Then all the times would be to the timezone you just set

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Set the default timezone to use  Available since PHP 5 1 date default timezone set  UTC         Prints something like  Monday echo date  l        Prints something like  Monday 8th of August 2016 03 12 46 PM echo date  l jS  of F Y h i s A        Prints  July 1  2016 is on a Saturday echo  July 1  2016 is on a     date  l   mktime 0  0  0  7  1  2016        Use the constants in the format parameter       Prints something like  Wed  25 Sep 2013 15 28 57 -0700 echo date DATE RFC2822       Prints something like  2016-07-01T00 00 00 00 00 echo date DATE ATOM  mktime 0  0  0  7  1  2000

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You can use this code    lt  php      currentDateTime   date  Y-m-d H i s        echo  currentDateTime    gt

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Very simple   date default timezone set  Asia Kolkata     date   date  m d Y H i s   time

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date default timezone set  Europe Warsaw    echo   lt p class  time  gt   date  H i s     lt  p gt     echo   lt p class  date  gt   date  d m Y     lt  p gt

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PHP s time   returns a current Unix timestamp  With this  you can use the date   function to format it to your needs    date   date  Format String   time       As Paolo mentioned in the comments  the second argument is redundant  The following snippet is equivalent to the one above    date   date  Format String

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The best way to get the current time and date is by the date function in PHP    date   date  FORMAT       FORMAT E g   Y-m-d H i s   current date   date  Y-m-d H i s      With the Unix timestamp    now date   date  FORMAT   time        FORMAT Eg   Y-m-d H i s   To set the server time zone   date default timezone set  Asia Calcutta      A different time zone list is here

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I found that the simplest way of getting the current time in PHP is something like this     Prints out something like 10 00am Just be sure to set your timezone correctly  date default timezone set  America Chicago     TIME   date  G ia

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Set your time zone   date default timezone set  Asia Calcutta      Then call the date functions   date   date  Y-m-d H i s

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If you want to get the date like 12-3-2016    separate each day  month  and year value  then copy-paste this code    day   date  d     month   date  m     year   date  y    print  date     day    -     month    -     year

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lt  php echo   lt b gt   date  l   F jS   Y      lt  b gt      gt    Prints like this   Sunday  December 9th  2012

User · Answer

For the new PHP programmer might confuse why there are lot of method for to get current date and time and which one to use in their project.

1. date method (PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

This is the very common and very easiest way to get the date and time in php.

// set the default timezone to use. Available since PHP 5.1
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');


// Prints something like: Monday
echo date("l");

// Prints something like: Monday 8th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM
echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');

// Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));

/* use the constants in the format parameter */
// prints something like: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:28:57 -0700
echo date(DATE_RFC2822);

// prints something like: 2000-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
echo date(DATE_ATOM, mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));

You can learn more about it in here

2. DateTime class (PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7)

when you want to use PHP with OOP, this is the best way to get date and time.

<?php
// Specified date/time in your computer's time zone.
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";

// Specified date/time in the specified time zone.
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01', new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Nauru'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";

// Current date/time in your computer's time zone.
$date = new DateTime();
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";

// Current date/time in the specified time zone.
$date = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Nauru'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";

// Using a UNIX timestamp.  Notice the result is in the UTC time zone.
$date = new DateTime('@946684800');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";

// Non-existent values roll over.
$date = new DateTime('2000-02-30');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";
?>

You can learn more about it in here

3. Carbon Date time package

if you are using Composer, Laravel, Symfony or any kinda framework this is the best way to get the date and time. Also this package extends DateTime class in php so you use all the method in Datetime class. This in-built in frameworks like laravel so you don't have to install it separately.

printf("Right now is %s", Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString());
printf("Right now in Vancouver is %s", Carbon::now('America/Vancouver')); // automatically converted to string
$tomorrow = Carbon::now()->addDay();
$lastWeek = Carbon::now()->subWeek();

// Carbon embed 823 languages:
echo $tomorrow->locale('fr')->isoFormat('dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm');
echo $tomorrow->locale('ar')->isoFormat('dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm');

$officialDate = Carbon::now()->toRfc2822String();

$howOldAmI = Carbon::createFromDate(1975, 5, 21)->age;

$noonTodayLondonTime = Carbon::createFromTime(12, 0, 0, 'Europe/London');

$internetWillBlowUpOn = Carbon::create(2038, 01, 19, 3, 14, 7, 'GMT');

if (Carbon::now()->isWeekend()) {
    echo 'Party!';
}
echo Carbon::now()->subMinutes(2)->diffForHumans(); // '2 minutes ago'

You can learn more about it in here

Hope this helps and if you know any other way to get the date and time feel free to edit the answer.

User · Answer

PHP s date function can do this job   date    Description   string date string  format    int  timestamp   time       Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given integer timestamp or the current time if no timestamp is given   Examples    today   date  F j  Y  g i a                     March 10  2001  5 16 pm  today   date  m d y                             03 10 01  today   date  j  n  Y                           10  3  2001  today   date  Ymd                               20010310  today   date  h-i-s  j-m-y  it is w Day         05-16-18  10-03-01  1631 1618 6 Satpm01  today   date   i t  i s  t h e jS  d a y        it is the 10th day   today   date  D M j G i s T Y                   Sat Mar 10 17 16 18 MST 2001  today   date  H m s  m  i s   m o n t h         17 03 18 m is month  today   date  H i s                             17 16 18  today   date  Y-m-d H i s                       2001-03-10 17 16 18  the MySQL DATETIME format

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Another simple way is to take the timestamp of the current date and time  Use mktime   function    now   mktime       Return timestamp of the current time   Then you can convert this to another date format        Prints something like  Thursday 26th of January 2017 01 12 36 PM echo date  l jS  of F Y h i s A   now     More date formats are here  http   php net manual en function date php

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PHP s time   returns a current Unix timestamp  With this  you can use the date   function to format it to your needs    date   date  Format String   time       As Paolo mentioned in the comments  the second argument is redundant  The following snippet is equivalent to the one above    date   date  Format String

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The date format depends too   echo date  d m Y H i sa       13 04 2017 19 38 15pm

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Normally  this function for date is useful for everyone  date  Y m d     But time is something different  because the time function depends on either the PHP version or system date   So probably use it like this to get our own time zone    date   new DateTime  now   new DateTimeZone  Asia Kolkata     echo  date- gt format  H m s      This function shows the 24 hours time

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echo date  d-m-Y H i sa      This code will get the date and time of the server that the code runs on

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date   new DateTime  now   new DateTimeZone  Asia Kolkata      echo  date- gt format  d-m-Y H i s      Update     Also get am pm in datetime   echo  date- gt format  d-m-Y H i s a       output 30-12-2013 10 16 15 am   For the date format  PHP date   Function is useful

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date   new DateTime  now   new DateTimeZone  Asia Kolkata      echo  date- gt format  d-m-Y H i s      Update     Also get am pm in datetime   echo  date- gt format  d-m-Y H i s a       output 30-12-2013 10 16 15 am   For the date format  PHP date   Function is useful

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We can use the date function and set the default timezone    lt  php     date default timezone set  Asia Kolkata        echo  Today is     date  Y m d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  Y m d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  Y-m-d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  l        echo  The time is     date  h i sa      gt

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Set your time zone   date default timezone set  Asia Calcutta      Then call the date functions   date   date  Y-m-d H i s

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Another simple way is to take the timestamp of the current date and time  Use mktime   function    now   mktime       Return timestamp of the current time   Then you can convert this to another date format        Prints something like  Thursday 26th of January 2017 01 12 36 PM echo date  l jS  of F Y h i s A   now     More date formats are here  http   php net manual en function date php

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date default timezone set  Europe Warsaw    echo   lt p class  time  gt   date  H i s     lt  p gt     echo   lt p class  date  gt   date  d m Y     lt  p gt

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Use    date   date  m d Y h i s a   time       It works

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Here are some characters that are commonly used for times    h - 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros  01 to 12  i - Minutes with leading zeros  00 to 59  s - Seconds with leading zeros  00 to 59  a - Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem  am or pm      Get your time zone   lt  php     date default timezone set  America New York        echo  The time is     date  h i sa      gt    Check this out  optional    lt  php      d   mktime 11  14  54  8  12  2014       echo  Created date is     date  Y-m-d h i sa    d     gt    For date   lt  php     echo  Today is     date  Y m d           echo  Today is     date  Y m d           echo  Today is     date  Y-m-d           echo  Today is     date  l      gt    Here are some characters that are commonly used for dates    d - Represents the day of the month  01 to 31  m - Represents a month  01 to 12  Y - Represents a year  in four digits  l  lowercase  L   - Represents the day of the week   Source-W3-Schools

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You can use this format also    date   date  d-m-Y      Or   date   date  Y-m-d H i s

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If you are Bangladeshi  and if you want to get the time of Dhaka then use this    date   new DateTime     date- gt setTimeZone new DateTimeZone  Asia Dhaka      get datetime    date- gt format  d m Y H i s

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echo date  y-m-d       Today      This will return today s date

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If you want to get the date like 12-3-2016    separate each day  month  and year value  then copy-paste this code    day   date  d     month   date  m     year   date  y    print  date     day    -     month    -     year

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Simply   date   date  Y-m-d H i s        Or   date   date  Y m d H i s        This would return the date in the following formats respectively   date    2012-03-06 17 33 07      Or  date    2012 03 06 17 33 07            This time is based on the default server time zone     If you want the date in a different time zone     say if you come from Nairobi  Kenya like I do  you can set    the time zone to Nairobi as shown below       date default timezone set  Africa Nairobi        Then call the date functions  date   date  Y-m-d H i s       Or  date   date  Y m d H i s        date default timezone set   function is however    supported by PHP version 5 1 0 or above    For a time-zone reference  see List of Supported Timezones

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lt  php    Assuming today is March 10th  2001  5 16 18 pm  and that we are in the    Mountain Standard Time  MST  Time Zone   today   date  F j  Y  g i a                       March 10  2001  5 16 pm  today   date  m d y                               03 10 01  today   date  j  n  Y                             10  3  2001  today   date  Ymd                                 20010310  today   date  h-i-s  j-m-y  it is w Day           05-16-18  10-03-01  1631 1618 6 Satpm01  today   date   i t  i s  t h e jS  d a y          it is the 10th day   today   date  D M j G i s T Y                     Sat Mar 10 17 16 18 MST 2001  today   date  H m s  m  i s   m o n t h           17 03 18 m is month  today   date  H i s                               17 16 18  today   date  Y-m-d H i s                         2001-03-10 17 16 18  the MySQL DATETIME format    gt

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Here are some characters that are commonly used for times   d - Represents the day of the month  01 to 31   m - Represents a month  01 to 12   Y - Represents a year  in four digits   l  lowercase  L   - Represents the day of the week  H - 24-hour format of an hour  00 to 23   h - 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros  01 to 12   i - Minutes with leading zeros  00 to 59   s - Seconds with leading zeros  00 to 59   a - Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem  am or pm    example   echo  quot Today  quot    date  quot Y m d quot     echo  quot time  quot    date  quot h i sa quot

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PHP s time   returns a current Unix timestamp  With this  you can use the date   function to format it to your needs    date   date  Format String   time       As Paolo mentioned in the comments  the second argument is redundant  The following snippet is equivalent to the one above    date   date  Format String

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Use    date   date  m d Y h i s a   time       It works

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PHP s date function can do this job   date    Description   string date string  format    int  timestamp   time       Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given integer timestamp or the current time if no timestamp is given   Examples    today   date  F j  Y  g i a                     March 10  2001  5 16 pm  today   date  m d y                             03 10 01  today   date  j  n  Y                           10  3  2001  today   date  Ymd                               20010310  today   date  h-i-s  j-m-y  it is w Day         05-16-18  10-03-01  1631 1618 6 Satpm01  today   date   i t  i s  t h e jS  d a y        it is the 10th day   today   date  D M j G i s T Y                   Sat Mar 10 17 16 18 MST 2001  today   date  H m s  m  i s   m o n t h         17 03 18 m is month  today   date  H i s                             17 16 18  today   date  Y-m-d H i s                       2001-03-10 17 16 18  the MySQL DATETIME format

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According to the article How to Get Current Datetime  NOW  with PHP  there are two common ways to get the current date  To get current datetime  now  with PHP  you can use the date class with any PHP version  or better the datetime class with PHP    5 2   Various date format expressions are available here   Example using date  This expression will return NOW in format Y-m-d H i s    lt  php     echo date  Y-m-d H i s      gt    Example using datetime class  This expression will return NOW in format Y-m-d H i s    lt  php      dt   new DateTime        echo  dt- gt format  Y-m-d H i s      gt

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You can use both the   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   variable or the time   function   Both of these return a Unix timestamp     Most of the time these two solutions will yield the exact same Unix Timestamp   The difference between these is that   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   returns the time stamp of the most recent server request and time   returns the current time   This may create minor differences in accuracy depending on your application  but for most cases both of these solutions should suffice   Based on your example code above  you are going to want to format this information once you obtain the Unix Timestamp  Unformatted Unix time looks like  1232659628  So in order to get something that will work  you can use the date   function to format it   A good reference for ways to use the date   function is located in the PHP Manual   As an example  the following code returns a date that looks like this  01 22 2009 04 35 00 pm    echo date  m d Y h i s a   time

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If you want a different timescale  please use    tomorrow    mktime 0  0  0  date  m      date  d   1  date  Y      lastmonth   mktime 0  0  0  date  m  -1  date  d      date  Y      nextyear    mktime 0  0  0  date  m      date  d      date  Y   1    date default timezone set  Asia Calcutta    echo date  Y m d H i s

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Since PHP 5 2 0 you can use the DateTime   class   use  Datetime    now   new DateTime    echo  now- gt format  Y-m-d H i s          MySQL datetime format echo  now- gt getTimestamp                 Unix Timestamp -- Since PHP 5 3   And to specify the timezone    now   new DateTime null  new DateTimeZone  America New York      now- gt setTimezone new DateTimeZone  Europe London           Another way echo  now- gt getTimezone

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its very simple      echo  date   date  Y-m-d H i s

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Linux server time and PHP time   difference time zone as follows    lt  php     putenv  TZ Asia Kabul         t   time        echo date  d m Y H i sa    t     gt

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simply use    date  quot Y-m-d H i s quot    this will  give you your date and time like  2020-08-22 12 20 30  this   add date default timezone set  quot your time zone quot   before date   function to get the time date of your area zone  here you can find you time zone

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The time would go by your server time  An easy workaround for this is to manually set the timezone by using date default timezone set before the date   or time   functions are called to   I m in Melbourne  Australia so I have something like this   date default timezone set  Australia Melbourne      Or another example is LA - US   date default timezone set  America Los Angeles      You can also see what timezone the server is currently in via   date default timezone get      So something like    timezone   date default timezone get    echo  The current server timezone is       timezone    So the short answer for your question would be      Change the line below to your timezone  date default timezone set  Australia Melbourne     date   date  m d Y h i s a   time       Then all the times would be to the timezone you just set

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Very simple   date default timezone set  Asia Kolkata     date   date  m d Y H i s   time

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simply use    date  quot Y-m-d H i s quot    this will  give you your date and time like  2020-08-22 12 20 30  this   add date default timezone set  quot your time zone quot   before date   function to get the time date of your area zone  here you can find you time zone

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You can use both the   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   variable or the time   function   Both of these return a Unix timestamp     Most of the time these two solutions will yield the exact same Unix Timestamp   The difference between these is that   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   returns the time stamp of the most recent server request and time   returns the current time   This may create minor differences in accuracy depending on your application  but for most cases both of these solutions should suffice   Based on your example code above  you are going to want to format this information once you obtain the Unix Timestamp  Unformatted Unix time looks like  1232659628  So in order to get something that will work  you can use the date   function to format it   A good reference for ways to use the date   function is located in the PHP Manual   As an example  the following code returns a date that looks like this  01 22 2009 04 35 00 pm    echo date  m d Y h i s a   time

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lt  php echo   lt b gt   date  l   F jS   Y      lt  b gt      gt    Prints like this   Sunday  December 9th  2012

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Normally  this function for date is useful for everyone  date  Y m d     But time is something different  because the time function depends on either the PHP version or system date   So probably use it like this to get our own time zone    date   new DateTime  now   new DateTimeZone  Asia Kolkata     echo  date- gt format  H m s      This function shows the 24 hours time

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You can either use the   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   variable  available since PHP 5 1 0  or the time   function to get the current Unix timestamp

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PHP returns the current time in seconds  You need to format them in whatever format you want      lt  php        time   returns current time in seconds      in seconds   time            strftime - Format a local time date according to locale settings     echo strftime   m  d  y    in seconds     gt      Reference  http   php net manual en function strftime php

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We can use the date function and set the default timezone    lt  php     date default timezone set  Asia Kolkata        echo  Today is     date  Y m d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  Y m d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  Y-m-d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  l        echo  The time is     date  h i sa      gt

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If you want a different timescale  please use    tomorrow    mktime 0  0  0  date  m      date  d   1  date  Y      lastmonth   mktime 0  0  0  date  m  -1  date  d      date  Y      nextyear    mktime 0  0  0  date  m      date  d      date  Y   1    date default timezone set  Asia Calcutta    echo date  Y m d H i s

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PHP s time   returns a current Unix timestamp  With this  you can use the date   function to format it to your needs    date   date  Format String   time       As Paolo mentioned in the comments  the second argument is redundant  The following snippet is equivalent to the one above    date   date  Format String

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Reference  Here s a link  This can be more reliable than simply adding or subtracting the number of seconds in a day or a month to a timestamp because of daylight saving time   The PHP code     Assuming today is March 10th  2001  5 16 18 pm  and that we are in the    Mountain Standard Time  MST  Time Zone   today   date  F j  Y  g i a                       March 10  2001  5 16 pm  today   date  m d y                               03 10 01  today   date  j  n  Y                             10  3  2001  today   date  Ymd                                 20010310  today   date  h-i-s  j-m-y  it is w Day           05-16-18  10-03-01  1631 1618 6 Satpm01  today   date   i t  i s  t h e jS  d a y          it is the 10th day   today   date  D M j G i s T Y                     Sat Mar 10 17 16 18 MST 2001  today   date  H m s  m  i s   m o n t h           17 03 18 m is month  today   date  H i s                               17 16 18  today   date  Y-m-d H i s                         2001-03-10 17 16 18  the MySQL DATETIME format

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PHP returns the current time in seconds  You need to format them in whatever format you want      lt  php        time   returns current time in seconds      in seconds   time            strftime - Format a local time date according to locale settings     echo strftime   m  d  y    in seconds     gt      Reference  http   php net manual en function strftime php

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echo date  d-m-Y H i sa      This code will get the date and time of the server that the code runs on

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date format  timestamp    The date function returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given integer timestamp or the current time if no timestamp is given  In other words  timestamp is optional and defaults to the value of time     And the parameters are -     format - Required  Specifies the format of the timestamp      timestamp -  Optional  Specifies a timestamp  Default is the current date and time   How to get a simple date  The required format parameter of the date   function specifies how to format the date  or time    Here are some characters that are commonly used for dates    d - Represents the day of the month  01 to 31  m - Represents a month  01 to 12  Y - Represents a year  in four digits  l  lowercase  L   - Represents the day of the week   Other characters  like           or  -  can also be inserted between the characters to add additional formatting   The example below formats today s date in three different ways    lt  php     echo  Today is     date  Y m d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  Y m d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  Y-m-d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  l      gt    Some useful links   gmdate   - Format a GMT UTC date time idate   - Format a local time date as integer getdate   - Get date time information getlastmod   - Gets time of last page modification mktime   - Get Unix timestamp for a date strftime   - Format a local time date according to locale settings time   - Return current Unix timestamp strtotime   - Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp Predefined DateTime Constants

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Linux server time and PHP time   difference time zone as follows    lt  php     putenv  TZ Asia Kabul         t   time        echo date  d m Y H i sa    t     gt

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Here are some characters that are commonly used for times    h - 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros  01 to 12  i - Minutes with leading zeros  00 to 59  s - Seconds with leading zeros  00 to 59  a - Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem  am or pm      Get your time zone   lt  php     date default timezone set  America New York        echo  The time is     date  h i sa      gt    Check this out  optional    lt  php      d   mktime 11  14  54  8  12  2014       echo  Created date is     date  Y-m-d h i sa    d     gt    For date   lt  php     echo  Today is     date  Y m d           echo  Today is     date  Y m d           echo  Today is     date  Y-m-d           echo  Today is     date  l      gt    Here are some characters that are commonly used for dates    d - Represents the day of the month  01 to 31  m - Represents a month  01 to 12  Y - Represents a year  in four digits  l  lowercase  L   - Represents the day of the week   Source-W3-Schools

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The time would go by your server time  An easy workaround for this is to manually set the timezone by using date default timezone set before the date   or time   functions are called to   I m in Melbourne  Australia so I have something like this   date default timezone set  Australia Melbourne      Or another example is LA - US   date default timezone set  America Los Angeles      You can also see what timezone the server is currently in via   date default timezone get      So something like    timezone   date default timezone get    echo  The current server timezone is       timezone    So the short answer for your question would be      Change the line below to your timezone  date default timezone set  Australia Melbourne     date   date  m d Y h i s a   time       Then all the times would be to the timezone you just set

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Use    date   date  m d Y h i s a   time       It works

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You can use both the   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   variable or the time   function   Both of these return a Unix timestamp     Most of the time these two solutions will yield the exact same Unix Timestamp   The difference between these is that   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   returns the time stamp of the most recent server request and time   returns the current time   This may create minor differences in accuracy depending on your application  but for most cases both of these solutions should suffice   Based on your example code above  you are going to want to format this information once you obtain the Unix Timestamp  Unformatted Unix time looks like  1232659628  So in order to get something that will work  you can use the date   function to format it   A good reference for ways to use the date   function is located in the PHP Manual   As an example  the following code returns a date that looks like this  01 22 2009 04 35 00 pm    echo date  m d Y h i s a   time

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I found that the simplest way of getting the current time in PHP is something like this     Prints out something like 10 00am Just be sure to set your timezone correctly  date default timezone set  America Chicago     TIME   date  G ia

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echo date  y-m-d       Today      This will return today s date

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According to the article How to Get Current Datetime  NOW  with PHP  there are two common ways to get the current date  To get current datetime  now  with PHP  you can use the date class with any PHP version  or better the datetime class with PHP    5 2   Various date format expressions are available here   Example using date  This expression will return NOW in format Y-m-d H i s    lt  php     echo date  Y-m-d H i s      gt    Example using datetime class  This expression will return NOW in format Y-m-d H i s    lt  php      dt   new DateTime        echo  dt- gt format  Y-m-d H i s      gt

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The time would go by your server time  An easy workaround for this is to manually set the timezone by using date default timezone set before the date   or time   functions are called to   I m in Melbourne  Australia so I have something like this   date default timezone set  Australia Melbourne      Or another example is LA - US   date default timezone set  America Los Angeles      You can also see what timezone the server is currently in via   date default timezone get      So something like    timezone   date default timezone get    echo  The current server timezone is       timezone    So the short answer for your question would be      Change the line below to your timezone  date default timezone set  Australia Melbourne     date   date  m d Y h i s a   time       Then all the times would be to the timezone you just set

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You can simply use this code to get current date and time  echo date  r   time

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Set the default timezone to use  Available since PHP 5 1 date default timezone set  UTC         Prints something like  Monday echo date  l        Prints something like  Monday 8th of August 2016 03 12 46 PM echo date  l jS  of F Y h i s A        Prints  July 1  2016 is on a Saturday echo  July 1  2016 is on a     date  l   mktime 0  0  0  7  1  2016        Use the constants in the format parameter       Prints something like  Wed  25 Sep 2013 15 28 57 -0700 echo date DATE RFC2822       Prints something like  2016-07-01T00 00 00 00 00 echo date DATE ATOM  mktime 0  0  0  7  1  2000

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The date format depends too   echo date  d m Y H i sa       13 04 2017 19 38 15pm

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Since PHP 5 2 0 you can use the DateTime   class   use  Datetime    now   new DateTime    echo  now- gt format  Y-m-d H i s          MySQL datetime format echo  now- gt getTimestamp                 Unix Timestamp -- Since PHP 5 3   And to specify the timezone    now   new DateTime null  new DateTimeZone  America New York      now- gt setTimezone new DateTimeZone  Europe London           Another way echo  now- gt getTimezone

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You can either use the   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   variable  available since PHP 5 1 0  or the time   function to get the current Unix timestamp

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The best way to get the current time and date is by the date function in PHP    date   date  FORMAT       FORMAT E g   Y-m-d H i s   current date   date  Y-m-d H i s      With the Unix timestamp    now date   date  FORMAT   time        FORMAT Eg   Y-m-d H i s   To set the server time zone   date default timezone set  Asia Calcutta      A different time zone list is here

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You can simply use this code to get current date and time  echo date  r   time

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date format  timestamp    The date function returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given integer timestamp or the current time if no timestamp is given  In other words  timestamp is optional and defaults to the value of time     And the parameters are -     format - Required  Specifies the format of the timestamp      timestamp -  Optional  Specifies a timestamp  Default is the current date and time   How to get a simple date  The required format parameter of the date   function specifies how to format the date  or time    Here are some characters that are commonly used for dates    d - Represents the day of the month  01 to 31  m - Represents a month  01 to 12  Y - Represents a year  in four digits  l  lowercase  L   - Represents the day of the week   Other characters  like           or  -  can also be inserted between the characters to add additional formatting   The example below formats today s date in three different ways    lt  php     echo  Today is     date  Y m d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  Y m d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  Y-m-d       lt br gt        echo  Today is     date  l      gt    Some useful links   gmdate   - Format a GMT UTC date time idate   - Format a local time date as integer getdate   - Get date time information getlastmod   - Gets time of last page modification mktime   - Get Unix timestamp for a date strftime   - Format a local time date according to locale settings time   - Return current Unix timestamp strtotime   - Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp Predefined DateTime Constants

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its very simple      echo  date   date  Y-m-d H i s

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Reference  Here s a link  This can be more reliable than simply adding or subtracting the number of seconds in a day or a month to a timestamp because of daylight saving time   The PHP code     Assuming today is March 10th  2001  5 16 18 pm  and that we are in the    Mountain Standard Time  MST  Time Zone   today   date  F j  Y  g i a                       March 10  2001  5 16 pm  today   date  m d y                               03 10 01  today   date  j  n  Y                             10  3  2001  today   date  Ymd                                 20010310  today   date  h-i-s  j-m-y  it is w Day           05-16-18  10-03-01  1631 1618 6 Satpm01  today   date   i t  i s  t h e jS  d a y          it is the 10th day   today   date  D M j G i s T Y                     Sat Mar 10 17 16 18 MST 2001  today   date  H m s  m  i s   m o n t h           17 03 18 m is month  today   date  H i s                               17 16 18  today   date  Y-m-d H i s                         2001-03-10 17 16 18  the MySQL DATETIME format

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You can either use the   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   variable  available since PHP 5 1 0  or the time   function to get the current Unix timestamp

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You can use this code    lt  php      currentDateTime   date  Y-m-d H i s        echo  currentDateTime    gt

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You can use both the   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   variable or the time   function   Both of these return a Unix timestamp     Most of the time these two solutions will yield the exact same Unix Timestamp   The difference between these is that   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   returns the time stamp of the most recent server request and time   returns the current time   This may create minor differences in accuracy depending on your application  but for most cases both of these solutions should suffice   Based on your example code above  you are going to want to format this information once you obtain the Unix Timestamp  Unformatted Unix time looks like  1232659628  So in order to get something that will work  you can use the date   function to format it   A good reference for ways to use the date   function is located in the PHP Manual   As an example  the following code returns a date that looks like this  01 22 2009 04 35 00 pm    echo date  m d Y h i s a   time

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Here are some characters that are commonly used for times   d - Represents the day of the month  01 to 31   m - Represents a month  01 to 12   Y - Represents a year  in four digits   l  lowercase  L   - Represents the day of the week  H - 24-hour format of an hour  00 to 23   h - 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros  01 to 12   i - Minutes with leading zeros  00 to 59   s - Seconds with leading zeros  00 to 59   a - Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem  am or pm    example   echo  quot Today  quot    date  quot Y m d quot     echo  quot time  quot    date  quot h i sa quot

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If you are Bangladeshi  and if you want to get the time of Dhaka then use this    date   new DateTime     date- gt setTimeZone new DateTimeZone  Asia Dhaka      get datetime    date- gt format  d m Y H i s

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You can use this format also    date   date  d-m-Y      Or   date   date  Y-m-d H i s

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Use    date   date  m d Y h i s a   time       It works

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You can either use the   SERVER  REQUEST TIME   variable  available since PHP 5 1 0  or the time   function to get the current Unix timestamp

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