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W3CDTF date in PHP

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To create a date time in the W3CDTF format (used in RSS feeds).W3CDTF date format is required for RSS validation. Use following PHP code.

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<?php
$date=substr(date("Y-m-dTh:i:sO"),0,22).":".substr(date("O"),3);
echo $date;
?>

above code will give output like : 2009-01-28T01:49:16-07:00

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Mike Litzkow / October 13, 2009
In PHP 5 you can use a built-in constant string:
$date = date(DATE_W3C);
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