Japanese Date in this format

Question

I\'m wanting show the Date in Japanese in this format:

2010年2月18日(木)

which translates to:

February 18, 2010 (Thu)

in PHP

This is the

Answer 1

here is what i used...Ripped from Cameron's code ;-)

$days = array("日","月","火","水","木","金","土");
$date = @date('Y年 m月 d日 (').($dys[@date("w")]).('曜) ').@date('H:i');