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Date Formatter

$my_date = '2014-04-12 05:05:05';
echo Date::format($my_date, 'Y/m/d');

The code above will outputs “2014/04/12”.

Read more about date formatting patterns here.

This class also can accept time format that looks like this, which is usually derived from the file name parts:

2014-04-12-05-05-05

Date Extractor

Added since version 1.0.2.

Extract the date input into some commonly used formatted date. Returned as array:

$date = Date::extract('2014-04-12-05-05-05');

Results:

$date = array(
    'unix' => 1397253905,
    'W3C' => '2014-04-12T05:05:05+07:00',
    'GMT' => '2014-04-11 22:05:05',
    'year' => '2014',
    'year_short' => '14',
    'month' => '04',
    'day' => '12',
    'month_number' => 4,
    'day_number' => 12,
    'month_name' => 'April',
    'day_name' => 'Saturday',
    'month_name_short' => 'Apr',
    'day_name_short' => 'Sat',
    'hour' => '05',
    'hour_12' => '05',
    'hour_24' => '05',
    'minute' => '05',
    'second' => '05',
    'AM_PM' => 'AM',
    'FORMAT_1' => 'Saturday, 12 April 2014',
    'FORMAT_2' => 'Saturday, April 12, 2014',
    'FORMAT_3' => '2014/04/12 05:05:05',
    'FORMAT_4' => '2014/04/12 05:05:05 AM',
    'FORMAT_5' => '05:05',
    'FORMAT_6' => '05:05 AM'
);

Optional to output only the desired format:

echo Date::extract('2014-04-12-05-05-05', 'W3C');

Results:

2014-04-12T05:05:05+07:00

Date Ago Calculator

Added since version 1.0.4.

Returned as array.

$date = Date::ago('2011-04-21 08:45:12');

Results:

$date
 │
 ├── year: 3 Years
 ├── month: 3 Months
 ├── day: 24 Days
 ├── hour: 1 Hour
 ├── minute: 52 Minutes
 └── second: 25 Seconds