date_sunrise() function in PHP

date_sunrise() function returns the sunrise time for a given date/location. If successful, it will return the sunrise time in the specified format. FALSE on failure.

Syntax

date_sunrise(timestamp,format,latitude,longitude,zenith,gmtoffset);

Parameters

• Timestamp - Get the timestamp of the current day at sunrise time.

• format - Specifies how to return the result:

  • SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING: Returns the result as a string.

  • SUNFUNCS_RET_DOUBLE: Returns the result in floating point form.

  • SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP: Returns the result as an integer (timestamp)

• Latitude - specified The latitude of the location. Latitude defaults to North. If you want to specify a south value, you must pass a negative value.

• Longitude - The longitude of the specified location. Longitude defaults to east longitude. If you want to specify a west value, you must pass a negative value.

• zenith - Defaults to date.sunrise_zenith

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• gmtoffset - Between GMT and local time time difference (in hours).

Return

The date_sunrise() function returns the sunrise time in the specified format after success. FALSE on failure.

Example

The following is an example-

Live demonstration

<?php
   echo("Date: " . date("D M d Y") . "<br />");
   echo("Sunrise time: ");
   echo(date_sunrise(time(),SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING,38.4,-9,90,1));
?>

Output

The following is the output-

Date: Wed Oct 10 2018
Sunrise time: 07:43

Example

Let’s see another example-

Live Demonstration

<?php
   $res = strtotime(&#39;2018-10-25&#39;);
   var_dump(date_sunrise($res, SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING, 69.245833, -53.537222));
?>

Output

Here is the output-

string(5) "11:28"

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