Date format

This page is dedicated to format of date used in PHP-Movic. PHP-Movic date and time utilities works only with simplified syntax. If you want use any more advanced formatting, you can always use default PHP date and time format.

Content
1. General syntax
2. Time symbols
3. Date symbols

General syntax

General syntax of date format string is following:
%X%
Where X is any of time or date symbol.

This sequence can be repeated as many times, as you want, for example:
%X%.%Y%.%Z% %a%:%b%:%c%
As long as X, Y, Z, a, b, c are any of symbols, all characters outside % will be outputted as they are.

All symbols are case sensitive (M is not same thing like m).

Time symbols

For any of following examples, let's assume time 07:09:03.5 in the morning.

Symbol	Explanation	Example
H	Hour in 24 hours format	7
0H	Zero padded hour in 24 hours format	07
G	Hour in 12 hours format	7
0G	Zero padded hour in 12 hours format	07
M	Minutes	9
0M	Zero padded minutes	09
S	Seconds	3
0S	Zero padded seconds	03
U	Milliseconds	5
0U	Zero padded milliseconds	50
LP	Lower cased name of period	am
UP	Upper cased name of period	AM

Date symbols

PHP-Movic does not work with any kind of format which would need any translation. So, any format works only with numeric values. This means, that PHP-Movic date formats does not support day of week (Friday, etc.) or names of months (June, etc.).
For following examples is used following date: 1st January 2023.

Symbol	Explanation	Example
d	Day in month	1
0d	Zero padded day in month	01
m	Number of month, where 1 is January	1
0m	Zero padded number of month	01
y	Full length year	2023
s	Shortened year (last two digits)	23