Php/docs/function.gmstrftime
gmstrftime
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
gmstrftime — Format a GMT/UTC time/date according to locale settings
Description
gmstrftime
( string $format
[, int $timestamp
= time()
] ) : string
Behaves the same as strftime() except that the time returned is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For example, when run in Eastern Standard Time (GMT -0500), the first line below prints "Dec 31 1998 20:00:00", while the second prints "Jan 01 1999 01:00:00".
Parameters
format
- See description in strftime().
timestamp
- The optional
timestamp
parameter is an int Unix timestamp that defaults to the current local time if atimestamp
is not given. In other words, it defaults to the value of time().
Return Values
Returns a string formatted according to the given format string
using the given timestamp
or the current
local time if no timestamp is given. Month and weekday names and
other language dependent strings respect the current locale set
with setlocale().
Examples
Example #1 gmstrftime() example
<?phpsetlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US');echo strftime("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", mktime(20, 0, 0, 12, 31, 98)) . "\n";echo gmstrftime("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", mktime(20, 0, 0, 12, 31, 98)) . "\n";?>