Format of 2013-04-09T10:00:00Z in php [closed]

Question

I'm looking for the date() format that will give me a date like this:

2013-04-09T10:00:00Z

Is there something simpler than just using the format 'Y-m-d ...'?

Answer 1

The date format 'c' (ISO 8601) used with gmdate() (for UTC time) comes very close:

2013-04-09T10:00:00+00:00

You just need to modify it by replacing the trailing +00:00 with Z (for Zulu):

echo substr_replace(gmdate('c'), 'Z', -6);

The alternative is simply this:

echo gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z');