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JDate

Methods

Visibility	Method name	Description
public	__construct	Constructor.
public	__get	Magic method to access properties of the date given by class to the format method.
public	__toString	Magic method to render the date object in the format specified in the public static member JDate::$format.
public	calendar	Gets the date as a formatted string in a local calendar.
public	format	Gets the date as a formatted string.
public	getOffsetFromGMT	Get the time offset from GMT in hours or seconds.
public	setOffset	Set the date offset (in hours).
public	setTimezone	Method to wrap the function and set the internal time zone object.
public	toFormat	Gets the date in a specific format.
public	toISO8601	Gets the date as an ISO 8601 string.
public	toMySQL	Gets the date as an MySQL datetime string.
public	toRFC822	Gets the date as an RFC 822 string.
public	toUnix	Gets the date as UNIX time stamp.
protected	dayToString	Translates day of week number to a string.
protected	monthToString	Translates month number to a string.

• Defined in libraries/joomla/utilities/date.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.utilities.date' );

See also

• JDate source code on BitBucket
• Subpackage Utilities
• Other versions of JDate