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Date Formatting

The characters are supported in the $format are:
  Day  
d 01 -- 31 Day of the month
j 1 -- 31 Day of the month
S st, nd, rd, th Suffix, works well with j
z 0 – 365 Day of the year
  Week  
W 1 – 52 Week number of the year
l Sunday -- Saturday Day of the week
D Mon -- Sun Day of the week
N 1(Mon)—7(Sun) Day of the week
w 0(Sun)—6(Sat) Day of the week
  Month  
F January – December Month of the year
M Jan – Dec Month of the year
m 01 -- 12 Month of the year
n 1 – 12 Month of the year
t 28 – 31 No. of days in the month
  Year  
L 0 – 1 1 if leap year, 0 otherwise
o 0000 – 9999 Year, overflowing week
Y 0000 – 9999 Year
y 00 -- 99 Year
  Time  
a am / pm Ante or Post Meridiem
A AM / PM Ante or Post Meridiem
B 000 – 999 Swatch Internet time
g 1 – 12 Hour
G 0 – 23 Hour
h 01 – 12 Hour
H 00 – 23 Hour
i 00 – 59 Minutes
s 00 – 59 Seconds
u Eg. 123456 Macroseconds
  Timezone  
e Eg。UTC, GMT, Atlantis/Azores Timezone identifier
I 0 – 1 1 if daylight saving,
0 otherwise
O -1200 -- +1200 Difference to GMT
P -12:00 -- +12:00 Difference to GMT
T Eg. EST, MDT Timezone abbreviation
Z -43200 -- 50400 Timezone offset in seconds
  Full Date and Time  
c Eg. 2004-02-12 T15:30:30+00:00 Full Date and Time
r Eg. Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200 Full Date and Time
U Eg. 12345678 Seconds since 1 Jan 1970 

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head>
<body>
<?php
$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat('j-M-Y', '15-Mar-2014');
$dt = date_create_from_format('j-M-Y', '15-Mar-2014');
echo $dt->format("d/m/y")."<br />";
echo $dt->format("jS F Y")."<br />";
echo $dt->format("r")."<br />";
echo date_format($dt,"e T P I Z")."<br />"; // procedural

try {
    $dt = new DateTime('asdfasdf');
} catch (Exception $e) {
    print_r(DateTime::getLastErrors());
}
?></body></html>

15/03/14
15th March 2014
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:46:03 +0100
Europe/Berlin CET +01:00 0 3600
Array ( [warning_count] => 1 [warnings] => Array ( [6] => Double timezone specification ) [error_count] => 1 [errors] => Array ( [0] => The timezone could not be found in the database ) )