XML Sitemap Date Format In PHP

By philipnorton42 on 3rd April 2009

To format the current timestamp in W3C Datetime encoding (as used in sitemap.xml files) use the following parameters.

echo date('Y-m-dTH:i:sP', time());

As of PHP5 you can also use the c format character to print the exact same string.

echo date('c',time());

These would both print out the following:

2009-04-03T11:49:00+01:00

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waypsublisbub - Sat, 02/19/2011 - 01:43

hi, new to the site, thanks.

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guru - Mon, 07/07/2014 - 11:57

Thanks

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phponwebsites - Tue, 09/09/2014 - 05:08

Thanks.. you solved my problem

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Herman Nz - Fri, 11/14/2014 - 08:51

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Tadex - Thu, 09/03/2015 - 02:15

Brilliant! Simple! Works! Thanks so much

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AmliJatt - Mon, 03/21/2016 - 16:36

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