getdate() function in PHP

The getdate() function returns an array that contains date and time information for a Unix timestamp.

The information returned is in the following form −

• [seconds] - seconds

• [minutes] - minutes

• [hours] - hours

• [mday] - day of the month

• [wday] - day of the week

• [mon] - month

• [year] - year

• [yday] - day of the year

• [weekday] - name of the weekday

• [month] - name of the month

• [0] - seconds since Unix Epoch

Syntax

getdate(timestamp)

Parameters

• timestamp − Integer Unix timestamp. Default is the current local time.

Return

The getdate() function returns date/time information of a timestamp or the current local date/time. The details about the information is shown above.

Example

The following is an example −

<?php
   print_r(getdate());
?>

Output

The following is the output −

Array
(
   [seconds] => 8
   [minutes] => 7
   [hours] => 5
   [mday] => 11
   [wday] => 4
   [mon] => 10
   [year] => 2018
   [yday] => 283
   [weekday] => Thursday
   [month] => October
   [0] => 1539234428
)

Example

Let us see another example −

<?php
   $dt = getdate(date("U"));
   echo "$dt[weekday], $dt[month] $dt[mday], $dt[year]";
?>

Output

The following is the output −

Thursday, October 11, 2018