getdate

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

getdate — Get date/time information

Description

array getdate ([ int $timestamp = time() ] )

Returns an associative array containing the date information of the timestamp, or the current local time if no timestamp is given.

Parameters

timestamp: The optional timestamp parameter is an integer Unix timestamp that defaults to the current local time if a timestamp is not given. In other words, it defaults to the value of time().

Return Values

Returns an associative array of information related to the timestamp. Elements from the returned associative array are as follows:

**Key elements of the returned associative array**
Key	Description	Example returned values
"seconds"	Numeric representation of seconds	0 to 59
"minutes"	Numeric representation of minutes	0 to 59
"hours"	Numeric representation of hours	0 to 23
"mday"	Numeric representation of the day of the month	1 to 31
"wday"	Numeric representation of the day of the week	0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)
"mon"	Numeric representation of a month	1 through 12
"year"	A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits	Examples: 1999 or 2003
"yday"	Numeric representation of the day of the year	0 through 365
"weekday"	A full textual representation of the day of the week	Sunday through Saturday
"month"	A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March	January through December
0	Seconds since the Unix Epoch, similar to the values returned by time() and used by date().	System Dependent, typically -2147483648 through 2147483647.

Examples

Example #1 getdate() example


<?php
$today = getdate();
print_r($today);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Array
(
    [seconds] => 40
    [minutes] => 58
    [hours]   => 21
    [mday]    => 17
    [wday]    => 2
    [mon]     => 6
    [year]    => 2003
    [yday]    => 167
    [weekday] => Tuesday
    [month]   => June
    [0]       => 1055901520
)

User Contributed Notes 5 notes

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vimal866 at gmail dot com ¶

1 year ago


Andre's code will throw an error. for the following line
    
     $d = $todayh[mday];
     $m = $todayh[mon];
     $y = $todayh[year];

"Notice : Undefined constant mday ,mon,year"

As is, it was looking for constants called mday, mon, year etc. When it doesn't find such a constant, PHP interprets it as a string. 

like any other request it should be wrapped in quotes like this

     $d = $todayh['mday'];
     $m = $todayh['mon'];
     $y = $todayh['year'];

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Yura Pylypenko (plyrvt at mail dot ru) ¶

13 years ago


In addition to canby23 at ms19 post:
It's a very bad idea to consider day having 24 hours (86400 secs), because some days have 23, some - 25 hours due to daylight saving changes. Using of mkdate() and strtotime() is always preferred. strtotime() also has a very nice behaviour of datetime manipulations:
<?php
echo strtotime ("+1 day"), "\n";
echo strtotime ("+1 week"), "\n";
echo strtotime ("+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds"), "\n";
echo strtotime ("next Thursday"), "\n";
echo strtotime ("last Monday"), "\n"; 
?>

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andre at anlex dot co dot za ¶

10 years ago


I thought best to show a posseble way to go about bypassing the end month issue where the first day in a new month will have the monday of the week that it falls in - in the old month. Use the numbering of days as the constant and work you way from there.

Example:
<?php
//-----------------------------
$now = time();
$num = date("w");
if ($num == 0)
{ $sub = 6; }
else { $sub = ($num-1); }
$WeekMon  = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m", $now)  , date("d", $now)-$sub, date("Y", $now));    //monday week begin calculation
$todayh = getdate($WeekMon); //monday week begin reconvert

$d = $todayh[mday];
$m = $todayh[mon];
$y = $todayh[year];
echo "$d-$m-$y"; //getdate converted day

?> 

Allot less code makes everyone happy..

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timforte at gmail dot com ¶

9 years ago


It's worth noting that this is local time, not UTC/GMT - gmgetdate doesn't exist :(.



The most logical way to handle date arithmetic without hitting DST problems is to work in UTC...



<?php

function add_days($my_date,$numdays) {

  $date_t = strtotime($my_date.' UTC');

  return gmdate('Y-m-d',$date_t + ($numdays*86400));

}

?>



[it's even faster if you use gmmktime instead of strtotime]

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eric dot schultz at NOSPAM dot CyVon dot com ¶

8 years ago


Here is another gmgetdate that is a little faster/suscint (no loops). 



<?php

function gmgetdate2($ts = null){

        $k = array('seconds','minutes','hours','mday',

                'wday','mon','year','yday','weekday','month',0);

        return(array_combine($k,split(":",

                gmdate('s:i:G:j:w:n:Y:z:l:F:U',is_null($ts)?time():$ts))));

        }

?>



It also returns the values in the same order as getdate.

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