Localizing Dates Manually
<?php $weekdays = array( 'domingo', 'lunes', 'martes', 'miércoles', 'jueves', 'viernes', 'sábado' ); $months = array( 'enero', 'febrero', 'marzo', 'abril', 'mayo', 'junio', 'julio', 'agosto', 'septiembre', 'octubre', 'noviembre', 'diciembre' ); $weekday = date('w'); $month = date('n'); echo $weekdays[$weekday] . date(', j ') . $months[$month - 1] . date(' Y'); ?>
The preceding code does this for both the day of the month and the month itself. One array contains the Spanish weekdays; another one contains the month names.
Note that the value for the month is decreased by 1 because the array $months
has no dummy element at position 0; therefore, month number one (January) has the index 0
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Using the Current Date the U.S./U.K./European Way
<?php echo 'US format: ' . date('m/d/Y<b\r />'); echo 'UK format: ' . date('d/m/Y<b\r />'); echo 'German format: ' . date('d.m.Y<b\r />'); echo 'International format: ' . date('Y-d-m'); ?>
To give you a short and convenient reference, the preceding code contains several commonly used date formats. Depending on where you are, the order in which day, month, and year are used might vary:
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In the United States, it's (mostly) month, day, and year
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In the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe, it's (mostly) day, month, and year
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The international standard date notation starts with the year and continues with month and day
The preceding code used a four-digit representation of the year because this is nonambiguous. In practice, however, two-digit years are also commonly used.