➤ The PHP date() function is used to format a date and/or a time. ➤ First of all, to get the right information, we need to set the default timezone:

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Tbilisi');

• d - Represents the day of the month (01 to 31)

echo date("d"); // outputs:  current day of the month (01 to 31)

• D - A textual representation of a day (three letters)

echo date("D"); // outputs:  currnet day (three letters)

• m - Represents a month (01 to 12)

echo date("m"); // outputs:  current month (01 to 12)

• Y - Represents a year (in four digits)

echo date("Y"); // outputs:  current year (in four digits)

• l - Represents the day of the week

echo date("l"); // outputs:  current day (A full textual)

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echo "Today is " . date("Y/m/d");  // outputs: Today is 2022/10/17
echo "Today is " . date("Y.m.d");  // outputs: Today is 2022.10.17
echo "Today is " . date("Y-m-d");  // outputs: Today is 2022-10-17
echo "Today is " . date("l");  // outputs: Today is Monday

• H - 24-hour format of an hour (00 to 23)

echo date("H"); // outputs:  current hour (00 to 23)

• h - 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros (01 to 12)

echo date("h"); // outputs:  currnet hour (01 to 12)

• i - Minutes with leading zeros (00 to 59)

echo date("i"); // outputs:  current minutes (00 to 59)

• s - Seconds with leading zeros (00 to 59)

echo date("s"); // outputs:  current seconds (00 four 59)

• a - Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem (am or pm)

echo date("a"); // outputs:  current am/pm