String date current date/time?

Question

I am using $date = date(\"D M d, Y G:i\");.

When I echo $date, it shows the correct date/time. Now I need this as an string.

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Answer 1

With regards to:

$today = strtotime($date); 

Those numbers are the current timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1st 1970). You can use this as a second parameter in the date function to change the date to whatever you want.

$newDate = date("D M d, Y G:i", $timeStamp);