The mktime() function returns the Unix timestamp for a date. This timestamp is a long integer containing the number of seconds between the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) and the time specified.
Syntax
mktime(hour,minute,second,month,day,year,is_dst);
Parameters
hour − Specifies the hour.
minute − Specifies the minute
second − Specifies the second
month − Specifies the month
day − Specifies the day
year − Specifies the year
is_dst − Parameters always represent a GMT date so is_dst doesn't influence the result.
Return
The mktime() function returns the Unix timestamp corresponding to the arguments given. This timestamp is a long integer containing the number of seconds between the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) and the time specified.
Example
The following is an example −
<?php
echo "March 20, 2017 was on " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 03, 20, 2017));
?>Output
The following is the output −
March 20, 2017 was on Monday
Example
Let us see another example −
<?php
echo date("M-d-Y",mktime(0,0,0,22,9,2018)) . "<br>";
?>Output
The following is the output −
Oct-09-2019