You should use the special date function in PHP.
Take a look at the example
<?php
echo date("D M d");
?>
will display: Mon Feb 03
where
Y = Year eg. 2003
y = Year eg. 03
M = Month eg. Jan
m = Month eg. 01
D = Day eg. Fri
d = Day eg. 03
z = Day of the year eg. 002
H = Hours in 24 hour format eg. 07
h = Hours in 12 hour format eg. 7
i = Minutes eg. 29
s = Seconds eg. 28
U = Seconds since epoch eg. 1041604168
