PHP Date - How to add a string to separate date and time

Question

I want to display date and time format something like this "May 23 at 12:30pm". I saw in PHP manual and found:

// Prints something like: Monday 8th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM
echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');

After modification I manage to get

 echo date('M j \of h:i a');

it is giving me "May 23 of 12:30pm"

but when i replacing of with at it is giving me "May 23 a23 08:26 pm".

I don't what is going wrong.

Doody

Answer 1

you need to escape the a and t as both have special meaning when used as formatting options in date()

echo date('M j \a\t h:i a');

See it in action

Anaesthetize

Make sure not to use double quotes in date string, it could produce unexpected result. – Alby

\t didnt work for me rather echo date('M j'). "at". date(' h:i a'); worked for me. – Altogether

Answer 2

Try

<?php
    echo date('M j \a\t h:i a');
?>

OR

<?php
    echo date('M j'). "at". date(' h:i a');
?>

Faso

Answer 3

You need to escape the t too:

echo date('M j \a\t h:i a');

Disharmony

Answer 4

You need to try this in php:

$t = now(); //This will give you current time
echo date_format($t,"dS M,y \a\\t h:i a"); //14th May,19 at 05:39am

Symonds

Answer 5

Another option could be:

echo date('M j')." at ".date('h:i a');

Sacristan

Answer 6

This is working for me, if want to add "at" between date and time

date("d/m/Y \a\\t h:i A", strtotime($date_created)); // for string
date("d/m/Y \a\\t h:i A", $date_created); // for UNIX time

Doomsday