// Simply:
$date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

// Or:
$date = date('Y/m/d H:i:s');

// This would return the date in the following formats respectively:
$date = '2012-03-06 17:33:07';
// Or
$date = '2012/03/06 17:33:07';

/** 
 * This time is based on the default server time zone.
 * If you want the date in a different time zone,
 * say if you come from Nairobi, Kenya like I do, you can set
 * the time zone to Nairobi as shown below.
 */

date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Nairobi');

// Then call the date functions
$date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
// Or
$date = date('Y/m/d H:i:s');

// date_default_timezone_set() function is however
// supported by PHP version 5.1.0 or above.

有关时区参考，请参见支持的时区列表。

如果您想要不同的时间刻度，请使用:

$tomorrow  = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , date("d")+1, date("Y"));
$lastmonth = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")-1, date("d"),   date("Y"));
$nextyear  = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"),   date("d"),   date("Y")+1);

date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Calcutta");
echo date("Y/m/d H:i:s");

设置时区:

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Calcutta');

然后调用日期函数

$date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

下面是一些常用的表示时间的字符:

d -表示一个月中的第一天(01 ~ 31) m -代表一个月(01 ~ 12) Y -年份(四位数) l(小写“l”)-代表星期几 H -以小时为单位的24小时格式(00至23) H -以前导零表示的12小时格式(01到12) i -前导0的分钟(00到59) s -前导0的秒(00到59) a -小写的子午线前后(am或pm)

例子:

echo "Today " . date("Y/m/d") ;
echo "time " . date("h:i:sa");

// Set the default timezone to use. Available since PHP 5.1
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');


// Prints something like: Monday
echo date("l");

// Prints something like: Monday 8th of August 2016 03:12:46 PM
echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');

// Prints: July 1, 2016 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2016 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2016));

/* Use the constants in the format parameter */
// Prints something like: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:28:57 -0700
echo date(DATE_RFC2822);

// Prints something like: 2016-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
echo date(DATE_ATOM, mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));

如果你想获得日期，如12-3-2016，分开每一天，月和年的值，然后复制粘贴以下代码:

$day = date("d");
$month = date("m");
$year = date("y");
print "date" . $day . "-" . $month . "-" . $year;