Given a date string, or anything that sort of looks like a date string, format will convert it to a Carbon instance and allow you to format it with PHP's datetime format variables.
event_date : April 15 2016
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{{ event_date | format ( ' Y-m-d ' ) }}
{{ Statamic :: modify ( $event_date ) -> format ( ' Y-m-d ' ) }}
2016-04-15
Parameters
Day
Character
Description
Example
dDay of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros
01 to 31
DA textual representation of a day, three letters
Mon to Sun
jDay of the month without leading zeros
1 to 31
lA full textual representation of the day of the week
Sunday to Saturday
NISO 8601 numeric representation of the day of the week
1 (for Monday) to 7 (for Sunday)
SEnglish ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters
st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j
wNumeric representation of the day of the week
0 (for Sunday) to 6 (for Saturday)
zThe day of the year (starting from 0)
0 to 365
Week
Character
Description
Example
WISO 8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday
42 (the 42nd week in the year)
Month
Value
Description
Example
FA full textual representation of a month, such as January or March
January to December
mNumeric representation of a month, with leading zeros
01 to 12
MA short textual representation of a month, three letters
Jan to Dec
nNumeric representation of a month, without leading zeros
1 to 12
tNumber of days in the given month
28 to 31
Year
Value
Description
Example
LWhether it's a leap year
1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise.
oISO 8601 week-numbering year.
1999 or 2003
YA full numeric representation of a year, at least 4 digits, with - for years BCE.
-0055, 0787, 1999, 2003
yA two digit representation of a year
99 or 03
Time
Value
Description
Example
aLowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
am or pm
AUppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
AM or PM
BSwatch Internet time (it's coming back, just you wait)
000 to 999
g12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
1 to 12
G24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
0 to 23
h12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
01 to 12
H24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
00 to 23
iMinutes with leading zeros
00 to 59
sSeconds with leading zeros
00 to 59
uMicroseconds.
654321
vMilliseconds. Same note applies as for u.
654
Timezone
Value
Description
Example
eTimezone identifier
UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores
I Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time
1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise.
ODifference to Greenwich time (GMT) without colon between hours and minutes
+0200
PDifference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes
+02:00
pThe same as P, but returns Z instead of +00:00 (available as of PHP 8.0.0)
+02:00
TTimezone abbreviation, if known; otherwise the GMT offset.
EST, MDT, +05
ZTimezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive.
-43200 to 50400
Full Date/Time
Value
Description
Example
cISO 8601 date
2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00
rRFC 2822 or RFC 5322 formatted dateThu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200
