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# gmdate

gmdate -- Gormat a GMT/CUT date/time

## Description

`string gmdate`(string format, int timestamp);

Identical to the date() function except that the time returned is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For example, when run in Finland (GMT +0200), the first line below prints "Jan 01 1998 00:00:00", while the second prints "Dec 31 1997 22:00:00".

Example 1. Gmdate() example

      1
      2 echo date ("M d Y H:i:s", mktime (0,0,0,1,1,1998));
      3 echo gmdate ("M d Y H:i:s", mktime (0,0,0,1,1,1998));
      4

See also date(), mktime(), and gmmktime().

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