1To convert the date-time format PHP provides strtotime() and date() function. We change the date format from one format to another.
2
3Change YYYY-MM-DD to DD-MM-YYYY
4<? php.
5$currDate = "2020-04-18";
6$changeDate = date("d-m-Y", strtotime($currDate));
7echo "Changed date format is: ". $changeDate. " (MM-DD-YYYY)";
8?>
1<?php
2// Assuming today is March 10th, 2001, 5:16:18 pm, and that we are in the
3// Mountain Standard Time (MST) Time Zone
4//
5$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a"); // March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm
6$today = date("m.d.y"); // 03.10.01
7$today = date("j, n, Y"); // 10, 3, 2001
8$today = date("Ymd"); // 20010310
9$today = date('h-i-s, j-m-y, it is w Day'); // 05-16-18, 10-03-01, 1631 1618 6 Satpm01
10$today = date('\i\t \i\s \t\h\e jS \d\a\y.'); // it is the 10th day.
11$today = date("D M j G:i:s T Y"); // Sat Mar 10 17:16:18 MST 2001
12$today = date('H:m:s \m \i\s\ \m\o\n\t\h'); // 17:03:18 m is month
13$today = date("H:i:s"); // 17:16:18
14$today = date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); // 2001-03-10 17:16:18 (the MySQL DATETIME format)
15?>
16
17/*d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros 01 to 31
18D A textual representation of a day, three letters Mon through Sun
19j Day of the month without leading zeros 1 to 31
20l (lowercase 'L') A full textual representation of the day of the week Sunday through Saturday
21N ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week (added in PHP 5.1.0) 1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday)
22S English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j
23w Numeric representation of the day of the week 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)
24z The day of the year (starting from 0) 0 through 365
25Week --- ---
26W ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year)
27Month --- ---
28F A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March January through December
29m Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros 01 through 12
30M A short textual representation of a month, three letters Jan through Dec
31n Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros 1 through 12
32t Number of days in the given month 28 through 31
33Year --- ---
34L Whether it's a leap year 1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise.
35o 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. (added in PHP 5.1.0) Examples: 1999 or 2003
36Y A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits Examples: 1999 or 2003
37y A two digit representation of a year Examples: 99 or 03
38Time --- ---
39a Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem am or pm
40A Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem AM or PM
41B Swatch Internet time 000 through 999
42g 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 1 through 12
43G 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 0 through 23
44h 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 01 through 12
45H 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 00 through 23
46i Minutes with leading zeros 00 to 59
47s Seconds with leading zeros 00 through 59
48u Microseconds (added in PHP 5.2.2). Note that date() will always generate 000000 since it takes an integer parameter, whereas DateTime::format() does support microseconds if DateTime was created with microseconds. Example: 654321
49v Milliseconds (added in PHP 7.0.0). Same note applies as for u. Example: 654
50Timezone --- ---
51e Timezone identifier (added in PHP 5.1.0) Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores
52I (capital i) Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time 1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise.
53O Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) without colon between hours and minutes Example: +0200
54P Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes (added in PHP 5.1.3) Example: +02:00
55T Timezone abbreviation Examples: EST, MDT ...
56Z 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
57Full Date/Time --- ---
58c ISO 8601 date (added in PHP 5) 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00
59r » RFC 2822 formatted date Example: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200
60U Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) See also time()
61*/
1<?php
2 // To change the format of an existing date
3 $old_date_format = "20/03/1999";
4 $new_data_format = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime($old_date_format));
1$originalDate = "2017-03-08";
2$newDate = date("d/m/Y", strtotime($originalDate));
3
1$myDateTime = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $dateString);
2$newDateString = $myDateTime->format('d-m-Y');
3