以我为例，wordpress网站页脚的版权声明需要更新。

想法很简单，但涉及的步骤比预期的要多。

Open footer.php in your theme's folder. Locate copyright text, expected this to be all hard coded but found: <div id="copyright"> <?php the_field('copyright_disclaimer', 'options'); ?> </div> Now we know the year is written somewhere in WordPress admin so locate that to delete the year written text. In WP-Admin, go to Options on the left main admin menu: Then on next page go to the tab Disclaimers: and near the top you will find Copyright year: DELETE the © symbol + year + the empty space following the year, then save your page with Update button at top-right of page. With text version of year now delete, we can go and add our year that updates automatically with PHP. Go back to chunk of code in STEP 2 found in footer.php and update that to this: <div id="copyright"> &copy;<?php echo date("Y"); ?> <?php the_field('copyright_disclaimer', 'options'); ?> </div> Done! Just need to test to ensure changes have taken effect as expected.

这对很多人来说可能不是同样的情况，但是我们在相当多的客户站点中遇到过这种模式，并且认为最好在这里记录。

<?php echo date("Y"); ?>

strftime("%Y");

我喜欢strftime。这是一个抓取/重新组合日期/时间块的很棒的函数。

此外，它尊重区域设置，日期函数不这样做。

<?php date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Kolkata");?><?=date("Y");?>

你可以在页脚部分使用它来获得动态版权年份

在date函数的第二个参数中可以得到更多的值 Strtotime返回参数传递的时间戳

// This work when you get time as string
echo date('Y', strtotime("now"));

// Get next years
echo date('Y', strtotime("+1 years"));

// 
echo strftime("%Y", strtotime("now"));

使用datetime类

echo (new DateTime)->format('Y');

顺便说一句……网站版权展示有几种合适的方式。有些人倾向于让事情变得多余，例如:版权©具有相同的含义。重要的版权部分包括:

**Symbol, Year, Author/Owner and Rights statement.** 

使用PHP + HTML:

<p id='copyright'>&copy; <?php echo date("Y"); ?> Company Name All Rights Reserved</p>

or

<p id='copyright'>&copy; <?php echo "2010-".date("Y"); ?> Company Name All Rights Reserved</p