why 'i' means minuites in PHP date format?

[tangar]

Sorry for silly question, I tried to google it, but can't find an answer

 

Why there:

date('d-m-Y H:i:s')

'i' means minutes? It has to be 'm', but there is 'month' already, ok.. What does acronym 'i' stands for there?  :DD Which word hides behind this glyph? 

 

Thanks.

Edited October 28, 2017 by tangar

[NotionCommotion]

Because it is declared to be so here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

[Barand]

"i" is for minutes. They can't reuse "m" so opted for that. Live with it.

[tangar]

So it's not somekind of acronym, just random glyph were chosen? I thought there is somekind of riddle. Like 'i' for iteration or something like this...

[Barand]

If it makes you feel better, think of them as "inutes" :}

[benanamen]

'i' is the ninth letter and the third vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. So that gives you 93. You then take the last number (3) and replicate it giving you 33. When you subtract 33 from 93 that gives you 60. There are 60 seconds in a minute, so that's why seconds is 'i'.

_{Source: Benanamen}

[dodgeitorelse3]

'i' is the ninth letter and the third vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. So that gives you 93. You then take the last number (3) and replicate it giving you 33. When you subtract 33 from 93 that gives you 60. There are 60 seconds in a minute, so that's why seconds is 'i'.

_{Source: Benanamen}

there are 60 minutes in an hour, so that's why minutes is "i".

[Stefany93]

If it makes you feel better, think of them as "inutes" :}

LOL!

 

The date format's formatting is confusing and makes no sense. In the past most devs will write a class and do stuff like $date->showMinutes(); Nowadays most people use DateTime class, but if you need to echo the date in one page, you wouldn't initialize a whole class, so date still has to be used with its crazy formatting. 

[Barand]

The date format's formatting is confusing and makes no sense.

 

How can you say that?

date('jS F')

is quite straightforward and intuitive

 

BTW, the formatting in the dateTime class is exactly the same as for date()

[kicken]

If the first letter of a word can't be used as a shortcut because it's taken by something else, most people just move on to the second, then third, etc until one is available.

 

So, minutes.

[tangar]

Great Now I understand the picture THANK YOU, GUYS! :DDD