PHP date() not correct

Question

When I am using the php date() function, the result is not correct. It is not just the timezone who is not correct because the time given has always the same Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute. The only thing which evolves is the number of seconds.

<?php
    $time = date('Y-m-d H:m:s');
    var_dump($time);
?>

For example if I run the following script one time I will get :

string(19) "2014-04-01 02:04:41"

And the second time (32 second after the first one), I get :

string(19) "2014-04-01 02:04:12"

I really do not understand what is happening. My PHP version is the 5.5.10 but I also used the 5.4.17. Both running on Mac OS X 10.9.1

faintsignal · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-01 02:50:11Z

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You are displaying the month where you intended to display the minutes. i is the marker for minutes with leading zero.

Your code: $time = date('Y-m-d H:m:s');

Correct way: $time = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

answered Apr 1, 2014 at 2:50

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Félix Veysseyre Over a year ago

My bad. Thanks for the fast answer ! :)

John Conde · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-01 02:50:24Z

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m is for months, not minutes. i is for minutes. Change:

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

to

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

answered Apr 1, 2014 at 2:50

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user1864610 · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-01 02:50:48Z

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Your problem is in your format string. The format code for minutes is i, not m, which is the code for months.

Use this:

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

answered Apr 1, 2014 at 2:50

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Nikko Madrelijos · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-01 03:08:45Z

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Change the m to i

m is for months i is for minutes

Change

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

to

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

For other formats and reference regarding date function visit

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

answered Apr 1, 2014 at 3:08

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Sam Ben · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-01 03:18:41Z

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"m" is for month and "i" for minutes

here s what your code should look like

<?php
$time = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
var_dump($time);

?> check out manual for more examples source : http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

answered Apr 1, 2014 at 3:18

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Pavan Baddi · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-20 17:06:46Z

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To have correct Current Timing with seconds no need to set the date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Calcutta"); Method . For more details on this visit php timezone link

 <?php
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Calcutta");
echo "The Current Date & time is " . date("d/m/Y h:i:sa");
?>

answered Jan 20, 2017 at 17:06

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