Set time format in php

To convert the date-time format PHP provides strtotime() and date() function. We change the date format from one format to another. For example - we have stored date in MM-DD-YYYY format in a variable, and we want to change it to DD-MM-YYYY format.

We can achieve this conversion by using strtotime() and date() function. These are the built-in functions of PHP. The strtotime() first converts the date into the seconds, and then date() function is used to reconstruct the date in any format. Below some examples are given to convert the date format.

Change YYYY-MM-DD to DD-MM-YYYY

In the below example, we have date 2019-09-15 in YYYY-MM-DD format, and we will convert this to 15-09-2019 in DD-MM-YYYY format.

Output

New date format is: 15-09-2019 (DD-MM-YYYY)

Change YYYY-MM-DD to MM-DD-YYYY

In the below example, we have date 2019-02-26 in YYYY-MM-DD format, and we will convert this to 02-26-2019 (MM-DD-YYYY) format.

Output

New date format is: 02-26-2019 (MM-DD-YYYY)

Change DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD

In the below example, we have date 17-07-2012 in DD-MM-YYYY format, and we will convert this to 2012-07-17 (YYYY-MM-DD) format.

Output

New date format is: 2012-07-17 (YYYY-MM-DD)

Change DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY/MM/DD

Suppose we have date 17-07-2012 in DD-MM-YYYY format separated by dash (-) sign. We want to convert this to 2012/07/17 (YYYY/MM/DD) format, which will be separated by the slash (/). In the below example, DD-MM-YYYY format is converted to the YYYY-MM-DD format, and also dashes (-) will be replaced with slash (/) sign.

Output

 date format is: 2012/07/17 (YYYY/MM/DD)

Change date time to another format

Here in the below example, we will convert the date format MM-DD-YYYY to YYYY-DD-MM format and 12 hours time clock to 24 hours time clock.

Output

New date time format is: 2019/13/06 17:35:00

I have a little issue with php and the time format. I tried to change the time using the date() function.

$time = date('g:i a',$time);

But the result I get for $time=15:30:30 is 3:30 am

The Ante meridiem stay stuck on AM event if it's the afternoon.

Thanks.

hakre

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asked Feb 2, 2012 at 13:16

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Try something like this:

 $time = date("g:i a", strtotime("15:30:00"));

answered Feb 2, 2012 at 13:18

SERPROSERPRO

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If taken from database My past codes were

// get the Shift times
$shiftArray=array();
$num=0;


 $getShiftTimes=mysqli_query($link,"SELECT * FROM shift");

 while ($returnShiftTimes = mysqli_fetch_array($getShiftTimes)){
      $shiftArray[$num][0]=$returnShiftTimes['shift_id'];
      $shiftArray[$num][1]=$returnShiftTimes['start_time'];
      $shiftArray[$num][2]=$returnShiftTimes['end_time'];
      $num++;
 }

 $time = date_format(date_create($shiftArray[0][1]), 'g:i A');

From 14:00:00 will return 2:00 PM

answered Nov 29, 2012 at 9:01

reddyreddy

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Day --- --- d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros 01 to 31 D A textual representation of a day, three letters Mon through Sun j Day of the month without leading zeros 1 to 31 l (lowercase 'L') A full textual representation of the day of the week Sunday through Saturday N ISO 8601 numeric representation of the day of the week 1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday) S English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j w Numeric representation of the day of the week 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) z The day of the year (starting from 0) 0 through 365 Week --- --- W ISO 8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year) Month --- --- F A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March January through December m Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros 01 through 12 M A short textual representation of a month, three letters Jan through Dec n Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros 1 through 12 t Number of days in the given month 28 through 31 Year --- --- L Whether it's a leap year 1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise. o ISO 8601 week-numbering year. This has the same value as Y, except that if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. Examples: 1999 or 2003 X An expanded full numeric representation of a year, at least 4 digits, with - for years BCE, and + for years CE. Examples: -0055, +0787, +1999, +10191 x An expanded full numeric representation if requried, or a standard full numeral representation if possible (like Y). At least four digits. Years BCE are prefixed with a -. Years beyond (and including) 10000 are prefixed by a +. Examples: -0055, 0787, 1999, +10191 Y A full numeric representation of a year, at least 4 digits, with - for years BCE. Examples: -0055, 0787, 1999, 2003, 10191 y A two digit representation of a year Examples: 99 or 03 Time --- --- a Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem am or pm A Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem AM or PM B Swatch Internet time 000 through 999 g 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 1 through 12 G 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 0 through 23 h 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 01 through 12 H 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 00 through 23 i Minutes with leading zeros 00 to 59 s Seconds with leading zeros 00 through 59 u Microseconds. Note that date() will always generate 000000 since it takes an int parameter, whereas DateTime::format() does support microseconds if DateTime was created with microseconds. Example: 654321 v Milliseconds. Same note applies as for u. Example: 654 Timezone --- --- e Timezone identifier Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores I (capital i) Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time 1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise. O Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) without colon between hours and minutes Example: +0200 P Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes Example: +02:00 p The same as P, but returns Z instead of +00:00 (available as of PHP 8.0.0) Example: +02:00 T Timezone abbreviation, if known; otherwise the GMT offset. Examples: EST, MDT, +05 Z Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive. -43200 through 50400 Full Date/Time --- --- c ISO 8601 date 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00 r » RFC 2822/» RFC 5322 formatted date Example: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200 U Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) See also time()

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