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
d
Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros
01
to 31
D
A textual representation of a day, three letters
Mon
to Sun
j
Day of the month without leading zeros
1
to 31
l
A full textual representation of the day of the week
Sunday
to Saturday
N
ISO 8601 numeric representation of the day of the week
1
(for Monday) to 7
(for Sunday)
S
English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters
st
, nd
, rd
or th
. Works well with j
w
Numeric representation of the day of the week
0
(for Sunday) to 6
(for Saturday)
z
The day of the year (starting from 0)
0
to 365
Week
Character
Description
Example
W
ISO 8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday
42
(the 42nd week in the year)
Month
Value
Description
Example
F
A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March
January
to December
m
Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros
01
to 12
M
A short textual representation of a month, three letters
Jan
to Dec
n
Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros
1
to 12
t
Number of days in the given month
28
to 31
Year
Value
Description
Example
L
Whether it's a leap year
1
if it is a leap year, 0
otherwise.
o
ISO 8601 week-numbering year.
1999
or 2003
Y
A full numeric representation of a year, at least 4 digits, with -
for years BCE.
-0055
, 0787
, 1999
, 2003
y
A two digit representation of a year
99
or 03
Time
Value
Description
Example
a
Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
am
or pm
A
Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
AM
or PM
B
Swatch Internet time (it's coming back, just you wait)
000
to 999
g
12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
1
to 12
G
24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
0
to 23
h
12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
01
to 12
H
24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
00
to 23
i
Minutes with leading zeros
00
to 59
s
Seconds with leading zeros
00
to 59
u
Microseconds.
654321
v
Milliseconds. Same note applies as for u
.
654
Timezone
Value
Description
Example
e
Timezone identifier
UTC
, GMT
, Atlantic/Azores
I
Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time
1
if Daylight Saving Time, 0
otherwise.
O
Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) without colon between hours and minutes
+0200
P
Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes
+02:00
p
The same as P
, but returns Z
instead of +00:00
(available as of PHP 8.0.0)
+02:00
T
Timezone abbreviation, if known; otherwise the GMT offset.
EST
, MDT
, +05
Z
Timezone 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
c
ISO 8601 date
2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00
r
RFC 2822 or RFC 5322 formatted date
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200
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