<?php
$tz = new DateTimezone('Europe/Berlin');
$dt = new DateTime();
$dt->setTimezone($tz);
echo '<b>available datetime formats</b>' . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::ATOM) . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::COOKIE) . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::RSS) . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::W3C) . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::ISO8601) . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::RFC822) . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::RFC850) . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::RFC1036) . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::RFC1123) . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::RFC2822) . PHP_EOL;
echo $dt->format(DateTime::RFC3339) . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
echo '<b>create DateTime from a string with predefined format</b>' . PHP_EOL;
$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat(
DateTime::RSS,
'Sat, 04 Oct 2014 14:38:40 +0200'
);
dump($dt);
^ DateTime @1412426320 {#1392
: 2014-10-04 14:38:40.0 +02:00
}