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# gmstrftime

(PHP 3>= 3.0.12, PHP 4 )

gmstrftime -- Format a GMT/CUT time/date according to locale settings

## Description

string gmstrftime ( string format [, int timestamp])

Behaves the same as strftime() except that the time returned is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For example, when run in Eastern Standard Time (GMT -0500), the first line below prints "Dec 31 1998 20:00:00", while the second prints "Jan 01 1999 01:00:00".

Example 1. gmstrftime() example

    setlocale (LC_TIME, 'en_US');
    echo strftime ("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", mktime (20,0,0,12,31,98))."\n";
    echo gmstrftime ("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", mktime (20,0,0,12,31,98))."\n";

See also strftime().

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