XML Sitemap Date Format In PHP

To format the current timestamp in W3C Datetime encoding (as used in sitemap.xml files) use the following parameters.

echo date('Y-m-dTH:i:sP', time());

As of PHP5 you can also use the c format character to print the exact same string.

echo date('c',time());

These would both print out the following:

2009-04-03T11:49:00+01:00

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I think it's wiser to use the following parameters:

echo date('c',time());

Because the first method could give a different format (2020-08-30CEST22:28:28+02:00)

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