Add hours in a date in PHP

Question

Want to add hours in a date . Please help.

The PHP code is:

$createdDate=date_create("2013-03-17 07:11:00");
$hour = 4;

I tried using strtotime. But it gives an error.

Thanks

You can use following. You want to add only 1 hour, There for you have to add 60*60*1 into current date; $date = date('h:i:s A', strtotime(date("Y-m-d H:i:s"))+3600); You get my Point? — chintan, Mar 29 '13 at 09:58

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '13 at 09:45

8

Use DateTime modify method.

$date = new DateTime("2013-03-17 07:11:00");
$date->modify("+4 hours");
echo $date->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");

answered Mar 29 '13 at 09:45

Rikesh

Ja͢ck · Answer 2 · 2013-03-29T09:58:34.153

3

You could use DateInterval:

$iv = new DateInterval("PT{$hour}H");
$createdDate->add($iv);
// $createdDate is now modified

edited Mar 29 '13 at 09:58

answered Mar 29 '13 at 09:44

Ja͢ck

"Have to" is somewhat strong. :) – Jon Mar 29 '13 at 09:44
-1, Not clear enough , please provide link of the function – xkeshav Mar 29 '13 at 09:44
@diEcho Is it too much to assume OP can Google it themselves? – Ja͢ck Mar 29 '13 at 09:47
1

Is not adding link enough for a downvote ??? – Baba Mar 29 '13 at 09:54
@Baba I didn't think so, but perhaps new rules have emerged ;-) – Ja͢ck Mar 29 '13 at 09:57
+ I really don't agree – Baba Mar 29 '13 at 09:58

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 29 '13 at 09:44

0

You can use date_modify:

date_modify($createdDate, "+4 hours");

answered Mar 29 '13 at 09:44

Sjoerd

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