strptime() function in PHP

The strptime() function parses the time/date generated using strftime(). This function returns a parsed date array, or FALSE if an error occurs. The following parameters will be returned in an array.

• [tm_sec] − Seconds (0-61)

• [tm_min] − Minutes (0-59)

• [tm_hour] − hour (0-23)

• [tm_mday] − day of month (1-31)

• [tm_mon] − Number of months since January (0-11)

• [tm_year] − Number of years since 1900

• [tm_wday] − Number of days since Sunday (0-6)

• [tm_yday] − Number of days since January 1 (0-365)

• [unparsed] − Use the unrecognized date part (if any) of the specified format

Syntax

strptime(date, format)

Parameters

• date − The string to parse

• format − The format of the date and use the following Format as −

  • %a − abbreviated day of the week name

  • ##%A − full day of the week name

  • %b − abbreviated month name

  • %B − full month name

  • %c − preferred Date and time representation

  • %C − Century (year divided by 100, range 00 to 99)

  • %d − Month date (01 to 31)

  • %D − Same as %m/%d/%y

  • %e − Day in the month (1 to 31)

  • %g − Similar to %G, but does not include the century

  • %G − Corresponds to the ISO week number 4-digit year (see %V)

  • %h − Same as %b

  ##%H − Hour, using 24-hour format (00 to 23)
  %I − hour, using 12-hour format (01 to 12)
  %j − number of days in year (001 to 12) 366)
  %m − Month (01 to 12)
  %M − Minute
  %n − Line break
  %p − AM or PM depending on the given time value
  %r − AM and PM representation Time

  • ##%R − Time in 24-hour format

  • %S − Seconds

  • %t − Tab character

  • %T − Current time, equivalent to %H:%M:%S

  • %u − Day of the week A few are numbers (1 to 7), Monday is 1. Warning: Sunday is 1

  • %U in Sun Solaris - the number of weeks in the year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week

  • %V − ISO 8601 week number (01 to 53) in the current year, where week 1 has at least 4 days in the current year and Monday is the first day of the week

  • %W − The number of weeks in the current year, starting from the first Monday as the first day of the first week

  • %w − The number of the day of the week, Sunday is 0

  • ##%x − Preferred date representation, excluding time

  • ##%X − Preferred time representation, excluding date

  • %y − The year does not include the century (range is 00 to 99)

  • %Y − The year includes the century

  • %Z or %z − time zone or name or abbreviation

  • %% − literal % character

  • Return value
  strptime() function returns an array, or returns FALSE on failure.

Example

The following is an example −

Live Demo

<?php
   $format = &#39;%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S&#39;;
   $strf = strftime($format);
   echo "$strf</p><p>";
   print_r(strptime($strf, $format));
?>

Output

The following is the output −

11/10/2018 05:18:13
Array
(
   [tm_sec] => 13
   [tm_min] => 18
   [tm_hour] => 5
   [tm_mday] => 11
   [tm_mon] => 9
   [tm_year] => 118
   [tm_wday] => 4
   [tm_yday] => 283
   [unparsed] =>
)

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