Date and Time
- Introduction
- Installing/Configuring
- Predefined Constants
- Examples
- DateTime — The DateTime class
- DateTime::add — Adds an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds to a DateTime object
- DateTime::__construct — Returns new DateTime object
- DateTime::createFromFormat — Parses a time string according to a specified format
- DateTime::createFromImmutable — Returns new DateTime object encapsulating the given DateTimeImmutable object
- DateTime::getLastErrors — Returns the warnings and errors
- DateTime::modify — Alters the timestamp
- DateTime::__set_state — The __set_state handler
- DateTime::setDate — Sets the date
- DateTime::setISODate — Sets the ISO date
- DateTime::setTime — Sets the time
- DateTime::setTimestamp — Sets the date and time based on an Unix timestamp
- DateTime::setTimezone — Sets the time zone for the DateTime object
- DateTime::sub — Subtracts an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds from a DateTime object
- DateTimeImmutable — The DateTimeImmutable class
- DateTimeImmutable::add — Adds an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds
- DateTimeImmutable::__construct — Returns new DateTimeImmutable object
- DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat — Parses a time string according to a specified format
- DateTimeImmutable::createFromMutable — Returns new DateTimeImmutable object encapsulating the given DateTime object
- DateTimeImmutable::getLastErrors — Returns the warnings and errors
- DateTimeImmutable::modify — Creates a new object with modified timestamp
- DateTimeImmutable::__set_state — The __set_state handler
- DateTimeImmutable::setDate — Sets the date
- DateTimeImmutable::setISODate — Sets the ISO date
- DateTimeImmutable::setTime — Sets the time
- DateTimeImmutable::setTimestamp — Sets the date and time based on a Unix timestamp
- DateTimeImmutable::setTimezone — Sets the time zone
- DateTimeImmutable::sub — Subtracts an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds
- DateTimeInterface — The DateTimeInterface interface
- DateTime::diff — Returns the difference between two DateTime objects
- DateTime::format — Returns date formatted according to given format
- DateTime::getOffset — Returns the timezone offset
- DateTime::getTimestamp — Gets the Unix timestamp
- DateTime::getTimezone — Return time zone relative to given DateTime
- DateTime::__wakeup — The __wakeup handler
- DateTimeZone — The DateTimeZone class
- DateTimeZone::__construct — Creates new DateTimeZone object
- DateTimeZone::getLocation — Returns location information for a timezone
- DateTimeZone::getName — Returns the name of the timezone
- DateTimeZone::getOffset — Returns the timezone offset from GMT
- DateTimeZone::getTransitions — Returns all transitions for the timezone
- DateTimeZone::listAbbreviations — Returns associative array containing dst, offset and the timezone name
- DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers — Returns a numerically indexed array containing all defined timezone identifiers
- DateInterval — The DateInterval class
- DateInterval::__construct — Creates a new DateInterval object
- DateInterval::createFromDateString — Sets up a DateInterval from the relative parts of the string
- DateInterval::format — Formats the interval
- DatePeriod — The DatePeriod class
- DatePeriod::__construct — Creates a new DatePeriod object
- DatePeriod::getDateInterval — Gets the interval
- DatePeriod::getEndDate — Gets the end date
- DatePeriod::getRecurrences — Gets the number of recurrences
- DatePeriod::getStartDate — Gets the start date
- Date/Time Functions
- checkdate — Validate a Gregorian date
- date_add — Alias of DateTime::add
- date_create_from_format — Alias of DateTime::createFromFormat
- date_create_immutable_from_format — Alias of DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat
- date_create_immutable — Alias of DateTimeImmutable::__construct
- date_create — Alias of DateTime::__construct
- date_date_set — Alias of DateTime::setDate
- date_default_timezone_get — Gets the default timezone used by all date/time functions in a script
- date_default_timezone_set — Sets the default timezone used by all date/time functions in a script
- date_diff — Alias of DateTime::diff
- date_format — Alias of DateTime::format
- date_get_last_errors — Alias of DateTime::getLastErrors
- date_interval_create_from_date_string — Alias of DateInterval::createFromDateString
- date_interval_format — Alias of DateInterval::format
- date_isodate_set — Alias of DateTime::setISODate
- date_modify — Alias of DateTime::modify
- date_offset_get — Alias of DateTime::getOffset
- date_parse_from_format — Get info about given date formatted according to the specified format
- date_parse — Returns associative array with detailed info about given date
- date_sub — Alias of DateTime::sub
- date_sun_info — Returns an array with information about sunset/sunrise and twilight begin/end
- date_sunrise — Returns time of sunrise for a given day and location
- date_sunset — Returns time of sunset for a given day and location
- date_time_set — Alias of DateTime::setTime
- date_timestamp_get — Alias of DateTime::getTimestamp
- date_timestamp_set — Alias of DateTime::setTimestamp
- date_timezone_get — Alias of DateTime::getTimezone
- date_timezone_set — Alias of DateTime::setTimezone
- date — Format a local time/date
- getdate — Get date/time information
- gettimeofday — Get current time
- gmdate — Format a GMT/UTC date/time
- gmmktime — Get Unix timestamp for a GMT date
- gmstrftime — Format a GMT/UTC time/date according to locale settings
- idate — Format a local time/date as integer
- localtime — Get the local time
- microtime — Return current Unix timestamp with microseconds
- mktime — Get Unix timestamp for a date
- strftime — Format a local time/date according to locale settings
- strptime — Parse a time/date generated with strftime
- strtotime — Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp
- time — Return current Unix timestamp
- timezone_abbreviations_list — Alias of DateTimeZone::listAbbreviations
- timezone_identifiers_list — Alias of DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers
- timezone_location_get — Alias of DateTimeZone::getLocation
- timezone_name_from_abbr — Returns the timezone name from abbreviation
- timezone_name_get — Alias of DateTimeZone::getName
- timezone_offset_get — Alias of DateTimeZone::getOffset
- timezone_open — Alias of DateTimeZone::__construct
- timezone_transitions_get — Alias of DateTimeZone::getTransitions
- timezone_version_get — Gets the version of the timezonedb
- Supported Date and Time Formats
- List of Supported Timezones
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