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Asked: 2026-06-08T05:51:36+00:00

I am trying to put a readable time and date as part of a

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I am trying to put a readable time and date as part of a file name (in php). I am having all kinds of trouble with this and was hoping someone could help. I have tried several different recommendations that I have read around the internet (plus I read the manual) but I really haven’t gotten anything to work right. Right now I have this:

$Time=strtotime("now");
$date=DateTime::createFromFormat('m/d/Y H:i:s', '7/24/2012 14:40:30');
$date_readable=$date->$Timestamp();

At that point I then add $date_readable to a file name. It compiles and runs but it doesn’t format the date at all. It still gives it as a timestamp.
Any suggestions on how to make this work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    you can do it with simple date function for example

    $time = strtotime("now");
$formatDate = date('F jS, Y h:i:s A', $time);
echo $formatDate;

    this will print something like

    July 25th, 2012 1:02:29 am

    DateTime class is more powerful then using simple date function, as DateTime class offers powerful API’s plus it is object oriented. however for simple date conversions i would stick to php’s date function. as that could do my purpose.

    for more formatting option have a look at this link http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php#refsect1-function.date-parameters

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