How to get GMT date in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss in PHP

Question

I want to get the current date in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format.

I have tried:

gmdate(\'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss \\G\\M\\T\', time());

Its retur

Answer 1

You don't have to repeat those format identifiers . For yyyy you just need to have Y, etc.

gmdate('Y-m-d h:i:s \G\M\T', time());

In fact you don't even need to give it a default time if you want current time

gmdate('Y-m-d h:i:s \G\M\T');  // This is fine for your purpose

Manual

You can get that list of identifiers Here