getdate() function in PHP

The getdate() function returns an array that contains date and time information for a Unix timestamp.

The information returned is in the following form −

[seconds] - seconds
[minutes] - minutes
[hours] - hours
[mday] - day of the month
[wday] - day of the week
[mon] - month
[year] - year
[yday] - day of the year
[weekday] - name of the weekday
[month] - name of the month
[0] - seconds since Unix Epoch

Syntax

getdate(timestamp)

Parameters

timestamp − Integer Unix timestamp. Default is the current local time.

Return

The getdate() function returns date/time information of a timestamp or the current local date/time. The details about the information is shown above.

Example

The following is an example −

Live Demo

<?php
   print_r(getdate());
?>

Output

The following is the output −

Array
(
   [seconds] => 8
   [minutes] => 7
   [hours] => 5
   [mday] => 11
   [wday] => 4
   [mon] => 10
   [year] => 2018
   [yday] => 283
   [weekday] => Thursday
   [month] => October
   [0] => 1539234428
)

Example

Let us see another example −

Live Demo

<?php
   $dt = getdate(date("U"));
   echo "$dt[weekday], $dt[month] $dt[mday], $dt[year]";
?>

Output

The following is the output −

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Samual Sam

Updated on: 24-Dec-2019

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