Question

any function available to find the current date and time of the server in runtime using PHP as I need to pass this current date and time to the tag “Publish date / Pub date” in RSS feeds.

Please forgive me if the question is so simple.

Regards
Gourav.

Answer 1

date() or getdate(), or any of the many other similar functions that PHP has for dealing with dates.

date() will give you a date based on a format string. There are several builtin format strings, including one for RSS DATE_RSS.

getdate() will give you an associative array containing pretty much all of the info you need:

Array
(
    [seconds] => 40
    [minutes] => 58
    [hours]   => 21
    [mday]    => 17
    [wday]    => 2
    [mon]     => 6
    [year]    => 2003
    [yday]    => 167
    [weekday] => Tuesday
    [month]   => June
    [0]       => 1055901520
)

from there, your can format it to what RSS needs.