JDate is a class that stores a date and provides logic to manipulate and render that date in a variety of formats.

• property-read: string $daysinmonth: t - Number of days in the given month.
• property-read: string $dayofweek: N - ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week.
• property-read: string $dayofyear: z - The day of the year (starting from 0).
• property-read: boolean $isleapyear: L - Whether it's a leap year.
• property-read: string $day: d - Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros.
• property-read: string $hour: H - 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros.
• property-read: string $minute: i - Minutes with leading zeros.
• property-read: string $second: s - Seconds with leading zeros.
• property-read: string $month: m - Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros.
• property-read: string $ordinal: S - English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters.
• property-read: string $week: W - Numeric representation of the day of the week.
• property-read: string $year: Y - A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits.
• since: 11.1

Located in /libraries/joomla/date/date.php (line 33)

DateTime
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   --JDate

static getInstance (line 214)

Proxy for new JDate().

• since: 11.3
• access: public

static JDate getInstance ([string $date = 'now'], [mixed $tz = null])

• string $date: String in a format accepted by strtotime(), defaults to "now".
• mixed $tz: Time zone to be used for the date.

calendar (line 261)

Gets the date as a formatted string in a local calendar.

• return: The date string in the specified format format.
• since: 11.1
• access: public

string calendar (string $format, [boolean $local = false], [boolean $translate = true])

• string $format: The date format specification string (see http://www.php.net/date)
• boolean $local: True to return the date string in the local time zone, false to return it in GMT.
• boolean $translate: True to translate localised strings

dayToString (line 229)

Translates day of week number to a string.

• return: The day of the week.
• since: 11.1
• access: public

string dayToString (integer $day, [boolean $abbr = false])

• integer $day: The numeric day of the week.
• boolean $abbr: Return the abbreviated day string?

Constructor __construct (line 81)

Constructor.

• since: 11.1
• access: public

JDate __construct ([string $date = 'now'], [mixed $tz = null])

• string $date: String in a format accepted by strtotime(), defaults to "now".
• mixed $tz: Time zone to be used for the date. Might be a string or a DateTimeZone object.

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Redefinition of:

DateTime::constructor __construct ( [$time = ], [$object = ] )

format (line 277)

Gets the date as a formatted string.

• return: The date string in the specified format format.
• since: 11.1
• access: public

string format (string $format, [boolean $local = false], [boolean $translate = true])

• string $format: The date format specification string (see http://www.php.net/date)
• boolean $local: True to return the date string in the local time zone, false to return it in GMT.
• boolean $translate: True to translate localised strings

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Redefinition of:

DateTime::format ( $format )

getOffsetFromGMT (line 338)

Get the time offset from GMT in hours or seconds.

• return: The time offset from GMT either in hours or in seconds.
• since: 11.1
• access: public

float getOffsetFromGMT ([boolean $hours = false])

• boolean $hours: True to return the value in hours.

monthToString (line 353)

Translates month number to a string.

• return: The month of the year.
• since: 11.1
• access: public

string monthToString (integer $month, [boolean $abbr = false])

• integer $month: The numeric month of the year.
• boolean $abbr: If true, return the abbreviated month string

setTimezone (line 394)

Method to wrap the setTimezone() function and set the internal time zone object.

• since: 11.1
• access: public

JDate setTimezone (DateTimeZone $tz)

• DateTimeZone $tz: The new DateTimeZone object.

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Redefinition of:

DateTime::setTimezone ( $timezone )

toISO8601 (line 412)

Gets the date as an ISO 8601 string. IETF RFC 3339 defines the ISO 8601 format and it can be found at the IETF Web site.

• return: The date string in ISO 8601 format.
• link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt
• since: 11.1
• access: public

string toISO8601 ([boolean $local = false])

• boolean $local: True to return the date string in the local time zone, false to return it in GMT.

toRFC822 (line 449)

Gets the date as an RFC 822 string. IETF RFC 2822 supercedes RFC 822 and its definition can be found at the IETF Web site.

• return: The date string in RFC 822 format.
• link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt
• since: 11.1
• access: public

string toRFC822 ([boolean $local = false])

• boolean $local: True to return the date string in the local time zone, false to return it in GMT.

toSql (line 428)

Gets the date as an SQL datetime string.

• return: The date string in SQL datetime format.
• link: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/datetime.html
• since: 11.4
• access: public

string toSql ([boolean $local = false], [JDatabaseDriver $db = null])

• boolean $local: True to return the date string in the local time zone, false to return it in GMT.
• JDatabaseDriver $db: The database driver or null to use JFactory::getDbo()

toUnix (line 461)

Gets the date as UNIX time stamp.

• return: The date as a UNIX timestamp.
• since: 11.1
• access: public

integer toUnix ()

__get (line 126)

Magic method to access properties of the date given by class to the format method.

• return: A value if the property name is valid, null otherwise.
• since: 11.1
• access: public

mixed __get (string $name)

• string $name: The name of the property.

__toString (line 199)

Magic method to render the date object in the format specified in the public static member JDate::$format.

• return: The date as a formatted string.
• since: 11.1
• access: public

string __toString ()

Inherited Methods

Inherited From DateTime (Internal Class)

constructor __construct ( [$time = ], [$object = ] )
add ( $interval )
createFromFormat ( $format, $time, [$object = ] )
diff ( $object, [$absolute = ] )
format ( $format )
getLastErrors ( )
getOffset ( )
getTimestamp ( )
getTimezone ( )
modify ( $modify )
setDate ( $year, $month, $day )
setISODate ( $year, $week, [$day = ] )
setTime ( $hour, $minute, [$second = ] )
setTimestamp ( $unixtimestamp )
setTimezone ( $timezone )
sub ( $interval )
__set_state ( )
__wakeup ( )

DAY_ABBR = "\x021\x03" (line 35)

DAY_NAME = "\x022\x03" (line 36)

MONTH_ABBR = "\x023\x03" (line 37)

MONTH_NAME = "\x024\x03" (line 38)

Inherited Constants

Inherited from DateTime (Internal Class)

ATOM = 'Y-m-d\\TH:i:sP'
COOKIE = 'l, d-M-y H:i:s T'
ISO8601 = 'Y-m-d\\TH:i:sO'
RFC822 = 'D, d M y H:i:s O'
RFC850 = 'l, d-M-y H:i:s T'
RFC1036 = 'D, d M y H:i:s O'
RFC1123 = 'D, d M Y H:i:s O'
RFC2822 = 'D, d M Y H:i:s O'
RFC3339 = 'Y-m-d\\TH:i:sP'
RSS = 'D, d M Y H:i:s O'
W3C = 'Y-m-d\\TH:i:sP'