PHP date() examples

The code below are examples of using date function to get the current date with different formats.

<?php
date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York");
echo date("Y-m-d")."<br/>";
echo date("Y.m.d") . "<br/>";
echo date("Y/m/d") . "<br/>";
echo date("YmdHis")."<br/>";
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s")."<br/>";
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s D, M d, Y")."<br/>";
echo date("Y-m-d",strtotime("2014-02-09 15:04:51"))."<br/>";

print_r(getdate());
echo "<br/>";

$mydate=getdate(date("U"));
echo "$mydate[weekday], $mydate[month] $mydate[mday], $mydate[year]";
echo "<br/>";

$tz = new DateTimeZone("America/New_York");
$dt = new DateTime("now", $tz);
echo "America/New_York time>>>>>>>>".$dt->format('H:i:s D, M d, Y');

The output of the above code will print dates with the formats like the below:

2014-02-09
2014.02.09
2014/02/09
20140209163817
2014-02-09 16:38:17
2014-02-09 16:38:17 Sun, Feb 09, 2014
2014-02-09
Array ( [seconds] => 17 [minutes] => 38 [hours] => 16 [mday] => 9 [wday] => 0 [mon] => 2 [year] => 2014 [yday] => 39 [weekday] => Sunday [month] => February [0] => 1391981897 ) 
Sunday, February 9, 2014
America/New_York time>>>>>>>>00:02:07 Mon, Feb 10, 2014

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