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Unit 8: Working with Strings, Date and Time

setlocale(LC_ALL, “en_US”); Notes

putenv(“TZ=EST”);

echo strftime(“%c\n”);
echo “\nMET in nl_NL:\n”;

setlocale(LC_ALL, “nl_NL”);

putenv(“TZ=MET”);
echo strftime(“%c\n”);

echo “\nMET in no_NO:\n”;
setlocale(LC_ALL, “no_NO”);

putenv(“TZ=MET”);

echo strftime(“%c\n”);
echo “\nIST in iw_IL:\n”;

setlocale(LC_ALL, “iw_IL”);
putenv(“TZ=IST”);

echo strftime(“%c\n”);

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Output. is
MON Mar 1 20:19:20 2004

EST in en_us:
MON Mar 1 14:19:20 2004

MET in nl_Nil:
Na 01 nrt 2004 20:19:20 MET

IST in iw_IL:
IST 21:13:20 2004

March 1 in different locales.
You need to have the locales and time-zone settings installed on your system
before this will work. It is a system-dependent setting and not everything is
always available on your system. If you’re a Mac OS X user, have a look at
http://www.macmax.org/locales/index_en.html to install locales.

8.4 Parsing Date Formats

The opposite of formatting text is parsing a textual description of a date into a timestamp. The
strtotime() function handles a many different formats. Table contains a list of the most useful
formats.

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