$today = date_create('now');
echo $today->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
The above example will display today's date and time in Year-month-date Hour:minutes:second format. Here is the output
2023-09-30 12:32:49
date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');
$today = date_create('2019-05-29');
echo $today->format('Y-m-d H:i:s')
Output is here 2019-05-29 00:00:00
If you are getting warning message saying not to rely on system time zone , then add this line to the top.
date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');
$today = date_create('now');
echo $today->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
Let us try tomorrow's date
date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');
$date = date_create("now");
echo $date->format('d-m-y H:i:s');
echo "<br><br>";
$date = date_create("tomorrow");
echo $date->format('d-m-y H:i:s');
Out put is here 30-09-23 07:32:49
01-10-23 00:00:00
Another way date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');
$date = date_create('2013-07-19 23:16:30');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') ;
Output is here 2013-07-19 23:16:30
Code | Output |
$d = date_create('now'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-09-30 |
$d = date_create('19 July 2018'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2018-07-19 |
$d = date_create('Tomorrow'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-10-01 |
$d = date_create('Yesterday'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-09-29 |
$d = date_create('+1 day'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-10-01 |
$d = date_create('+1 week'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-10-07 |
$d = date_create('+1 week 5 days'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-10-12 |
$d = date_create('+1 month'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-10-30 |
$d = date_create('+1 month 10 days'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-11-09 |
$d = date_create('+3 months -1 day'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-12-29 |
$d = date_create('+3 years'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2026-09-30 |
$d = date_create('+1 year 5 days'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2024-10-05 |
$d = date_create('Monday'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-10-02 |
$d = date_create('Monday +1 day '); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-10-03 |
$d = date_create('first day of this month'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-09-01 |
$d = date_create('last day of this month'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-09-30 |
$d = date_create('first day of previous month'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-08-01 |
$d = date_create('last day of previous month'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-08-31 |
$d = date_create('first day of next month'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-10-01 |
$d = date_create('last day of next month'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d') ; | 2023-10-31 |
$d = date_create('last day of next month +1 hour'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d : H:i:s') ; | 2023-10-31 : 08:32:49 |
$d = date_create('Monday +1 hour +20 minutes +10 seconds'); echo $d->format('Y-m-d : H:i:s') ; | 2023-10-02 : 01:20:10 |
echo date('m-d-Y',strtotime('24-06-2018 next Monday ')); | 06-25-2018 |