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Manual: getdate

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getdate

getdate -- Get date/time information

Description

array getdate(int timestamp);

Returns an associative array containing the date information of the timestamp as the following array elements:

"seconds" - seconds
"minutes" - minutes
"hours" - hours
"mday" - day of the month
"wday" - day of the week, numeric
"mon" - month, numeric
"year" - year, numeric
"yday" - day of the year, numeric; i.e. "299"
"weekday" - day of the week, textual, full; i.e. "Friday"
"month" - month, textual, full; i.e. "January"

User Contributed Notes: getdate

07-Sep-1999 07:51

Try this...

$date = getdate();
print "$date[minutes]";

olip@xzone.pl
16-Sep-1999 03:19

If you need something like today() function - just use that:

$today = date( "Ymd", time() );

smelecat@narcolepsy.dhs.org
26-Nov-1999 02:06

This makes a live clock.

$date = getdate();
$minutes = $date['minutes'];
$hours = $date['hours'];
$tz="EST"; /* Set your time zone here */
/* initialize $ampm */
$ampm="AM";
if ($hours > 12) {
    $hours=$hours-12;
    $ampm="PM";
}
/* Fix minutes so that minutes 1-9 have 2 digits */
if ( $minutes < 10) {
    $minutes="0$minutes";
}
/* Output: H:M AM/PM TIME ZONE */
print "$hours:$minutes $ampm $tz";

matt@studio77.com
12-Dec-1999 03:18

OOPS! Try again...


$today = getdate();
$month = $today[month];
$mday = $today[mday];
$year = $today[year];
echo "$month $mday, $year";

ems@itg.net
14-Feb-2000 10:28

*Note* - Month and day are NOT zero-filled, so be careful when inserting dates generated by getdate(time()) into a database.

mactari@hotmail.com
20-Feb-2000 01:31

Welp, while we're on the subject of examples with dates, I've had to shove the current time/date into a mySQL datestamp using php3, and here's the code for that datestamp's creation (hacked from the examples above, more or less):

$today = getdate();
$mon = $today[mon];
$mday = $today[mday];
$year = $today[year];
$minutes = $today[minutes];
if ( $minutes < 10) {
    $minutes="0$minutes";
}
$hours = $today[hours];
printf("%s-%s-%s %s:%s:00", $year, $mon, $mday, $hours, $minutes);
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zparker@rpinteractive.com
06-Mar-2000 03:14

Re: timestamping w/ php + mysql.

If you're writing a php script and just want a quick timestamp for mysql, there's an easier method.
Create a field of type datetime, and then do the following:

<BLOCKQUOTE> insert into blah (blah, tstamp) values ('blah', NOW()); </BLOCKQUOTE> of course, if you're doing something more complex than timestamping, then you'll need to use the php method. but for timestamping, this is less hassle. ;)

mdchaney@michaelchaney.com
20-Mar-2000 09:49

Inserting date/time values into MySQL does NOT require 10 lines of code for each date. Just use the "date" function here in PHP to make a MySQL-friendly field:

$startdate=date('Y-m-d');

Use the optional second argument to specify the time (other than "now") to be inserted. If you want to insert into a date/time field, use the following:

$enddatetime=date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Again, use the second argument to specify an exact time.

ian@wildwebservices.com
25-Mar-2000 12:36

Using MySQL/PHP3. Trying to use a TIMESTAMP table field type to specify when a record was last updated. tried:

$datearray = getdate ($myrow['timestampfield']) ;

but since it's read back as a string instead of an integer, getdate complains. Thoughts?

ian@wildwebservices.com
25-Mar-2000 12:39

I thought of trying

$myint = atoi($myrow['timestampfield']) ;

but doesn't look like atoi is supported... I get an error saying it's an unknown function. Anything else out there to convert a string to an integer?

erl@voxi.com
04-Apr-2000 06:38

For the sake of completeness, the description should say that the numeric weekday (wday) goes from 0 (Sunday) to 6 (Saturday).

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