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Defined in

libraries/joomla/utilities/date.php

Methods

Method name	Description
__construct	Constructor.
__toString	Magic method to render the date object in the format specified in the public static member JDate::$format.
getOffsetFromGMT	Get the time offset from GMT in hours or seconds.
format	Gets the date as a formatted string.
toRFC822	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.
toISO8601	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.
toMySQL	Gets the date as an MySQL datetime string.
toUnix	Gets the date as UNIX time stamp.
setTimezone	Method to wrap the setTimezone() function and set the internal time zone object.
setOffset	Set the date offset (in hours).
toFormat	Gets the date in a specific format

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.utilities.date' );