Date Format in PHP for date month year and time

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We can apply date format on date objects returned by or created from DateTime function or any other way . Here are some example of displaying date and time by using format.
date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');
$date = new DateTime('2012-04-15 22:15:40');
echo $date->format('Y/m/d H:i:s');
The output is here
2012/04/15 22:15:40
Examples:
echo date('t'); //will return number of days in current month
echo date('Y'); //will return Year in four digits: 2013

Changing date formats from one type to other
More Examples on Date formats

Characters used for formating string in PHP date format

TypeChDESCRIPTION
Datedday of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros; i.e. '01' to '31'
jday of the month without leading zeros; i.e. '1' to '31'
DayDday of the week, textual, 3 letters; i.e. 'Fri'
lday of the week, textual, long; i.e. 'Saturday'
wday of the week, numeric, i.e. '0' (Sunday) to '6' (Saturday)
zday of the year; i.e. '0' to '365'
rRFC 822 formatted date; i.e. 'Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200' (added in PHP 4.0.4)
SSuffix for day of the month in 2 chrs ( with j )
zDay of the year ( from 0 to 365 )
Monthmmonth; With leading zeros; i.e. '01' to '12'
nmonth without leading zeros; i.e. '1' to '12'
Mmonth, textual, 3 letters; i.e. 'Jan'
Fmonth, textual, long; i.e. 'January'
tNumber of days in the month ( 28 to 31 )
YearL1 for Leap year, 0 if not
oISO-8601 week-numbering year.
Yyear, 4 digits; i.e. '2018'
yyear, 2 digits; i.e. '19'
Time
Hourghour, 12-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. '1' to '12'
Ghour, 24-hour format without leading zeros; i.e. '0' to '23'
hhour, 12-hour format; i.e. '01' to '12'
Hhour, 24-hour format; i.e. '00' to '23'
Minutesiminutes; i.e. '00' to '59'
Secondssseconds; i.e. '00' to '59'
a'am' or 'pm'
A'AM' or 'PM'
BSwatch Internet time
I'1' if Daylight Savings Time, '0' otherwise.
Lboolean for whether it is a leap year; i.e. '0' or '1'
TTimezone setting of this machine; i.e. 'MDT'
Useconds since the epoch
Ztimezone offset in seconds (i.e. '-43200' to '43200'). The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive.
e, O, P and Ttimezone identifier ( e ) , difference in Hour and minutes to GMT (O),+- Hour : Minute (P), Short name of zone ( IST) (T)

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