date(): what you probably didn't know about this function

drtebi

Or maybe you did know?

Anyway,
I was playing around with some IMAP stuff today, and I noticed (on accident) that the timestamp you can pass to the date function can also be an RFC 822 formatted date:

time();
// returns
// 1054871914

date('r', time());
// returns
// Fri, 6 Jun 2003 05:58:34 +0200

$mydate = date('r', time()); 
date('l, f jS', $mydate);
// returns
// Thursday, January 1st

If this is useful or not... that's another question you have to answer for yourself.

I am using PHP 4.3.1 on Gentoo Linux by the way.

maganv0x

always good to know

goa103

Hi,

I was playing around with some IMAP stuff today, and I noticed (on accident) that the timestamp you can pass to the date function can also be an RFC 822 formatted date:

You're right that feature is available since PHP 4.0.4. Check out the manual for more information. It's not a bug nor a weird behaviour of PHP.

Don't ask me who uses RFC 822 compliant dates, It emerged with ARPA (before Internet itself) !

JM. Molina

csousley

You could also use this to display a pretty timestamp:

$mydate = date('U');

$mydate = date('r', $mydate);

echo date('l, F jS', $mydate);

If this is useful or not... Again, up to you

dalecosp

I think I did know that, but it's nice to be reminded...

Since RFC822 has been updated at least twice, maybe a word about dates formatted to RFC1123...

gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T');

Of course, it's kinda funny that there's little real difference...