date(): PHP Date Today with time
Format the current date with date()
date() formats a Unix timestamp using the active default timezone. Set or verify the timezone before formatting when the application depends on a specific region.
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');For object-oriented date calculations, prefer DateTimeImmutable/DateTime rather than manually manipulating formatted strings.
<?Php
echo date("m/d/y"); // Today's date in m/d/y format
echo "<br>"; // Line break
echo date("d/m/y : H:i:s"); // Date/month/year Hour Minutes Second
echo "<br>"; // Line break
echo date("F j, Y, g:i a"); // today's date with time
echo "<br>"; // Line break
echo date("F j, Y, g:i a",time()) // same as above
?>
PHP can generate today date and time in different formats.
Here is a simple date command in PHP to display today date.
date("date format",[timestamp])Use of PHP timestamp in the date function is optional. If timestamp is not given then by default it takes the current timestamp or time().
To display the date in above format we have used the date format like this
date("m/d/y")
This will format the display to month / day / year format. We can change the display to any other format we want with use of different characters to format the string. You will get a list of such characters used for formatting the date is listed at the end of this page.
Let us display the todays date with the present time using the date format characters in a better way.
September 30, 2026, 12:05 am
Refresh your browser window to see how the time is changing. Here is the code used to display the above date and time.
date("F j, Y, g:i a")
Displaying Present Month
echo date('M');SepDisplaying Last Month
echo date('M',strtotime("first day of last month"));AugDisplaying 2nd Last Month
echo date('M',strtotime("last day of -2 month"));JulPresent Day of the Week
echo date('l');WednesdayPresent Day of the Month
echo date('d');30Time elapsed in seconds since Unix Epoch
echo date('U');1790726703You can try more such outputs by using different date formats
Format for MySQL datetime field
MySQL datetime field stores date with time. Here is the format required to store data in this field.$tdtp=date("Y-m-d H:i:s",time());2026-09-30 00:05:03
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| clyf | 29-03-2012 |
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| nobby | 10-06-2014 |
| the article was helpfull but still the time i get on my page is one hour ahead any idea on how to reduce it so as i can get the appropriate time? thank you in advance | |
