Title: PHP date
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# PHP date

 *  [Baroninn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baroninn/)
 * (@baroninn)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-date-1/)
 * Im not sure if this is the place to ask this , but here goes.
 * Im trying to create a php code that echo´s a text if date exceeds today
    else
   echo something else…
 * Is this correct ? :
 *     ```
       <?php
       $t = date("");
   
       if ($t > "today") {
           echo "It has started";
       } else {
           echo "It has not started";
       }
       ?>
       ```
   

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 *  [Geoffrey Shilling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffreyshilling/)
 * (@geoffreyshilling)
 * Volunteer Moderator
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-date-1/#post-6937569)
 * How about:
 *     ```
       <?php
       $t = date("");
   
       if ($t > date("Y/m/d")) {
           echo "It has started";
       } else {
           echo "It has not started";
       }
       ?>
       ```
   
 * There are quite a few formats you can use for the date
 *     ```
       <?php
       // Assuming today is March 10th, 2001, 5:16:18 pm, and that we are in the
       // Mountain Standard Time (MST) Time Zone
   
       $today = date("F j, Y, g:i a");                 // March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm
       $today = date("m.d.y");                         // 03.10.01
       $today = date("j, n, Y");                       // 10, 3, 2001
       $today = date("Ymd");                           // 20010310
       $today = date('h-i-s, j-m-y, it is w Day');     // 05-16-18, 10-03-01, 1631 1618 6 Satpm01
       $today = date('\i\t \i\s \t\h\e jS \d\a\y.');   // it is the 10th day.
       $today = date("D M j G:i:s T Y");               // Sat Mar 10 17:16:18 MST 2001
       $today = date('H:m:s \m \i\s\ \m\o\n\t\h');     // 17:03:18 m is month
       $today = date("H:i:s");                         // 17:16:18
       $today = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");                   // 2001-03-10 17:16:18 (the MySQL DATETIME format)
       ?>
       ```
   
 * More on the date function: [http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php](http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php)

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