get strtotime of specific time in php

Question

I want to get the timestamp of a day/time for eg

17/12/2014 8pm

Currently I am doing

$curtime = strtotime(date("Y-m-d H:i:s"));

which is giving me the current timestamp but I need to be of 8pm.

Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

With your method, `$curtime = strtotime(date("Y-m-d"). ' 20:00:00');` but it's not a very good method. — sjagr, Dec 17 '14 at 14:37

sjagr · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-17T14:48:39.743

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If you're trying to get a timestamp of today at 8pm, it's actually much more simple than using date since you can use relative times in a strtotime:

$curtime = strtotime('today 8pm');

If you test this with date:

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $curtime); // Returns 2014-12-17 20:00:00

Here's a whole writeup on relative date formats that explains how you can construct proper relative dates.

edited Dec 17 '14 at 14:48

answered Dec 17 '14 at 14:42

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Awesome...I just can't believe it can be that simple. – Raj Dec 17 '14 at 14:44
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@Raj Yeah! You can use some pretty common English wordings, like `next Friday 8pm` or `yesterday 8pm`. Or you can reduce the ambiguity and use `+1 day 8pm` for tomorrow at 8pm. – sjagr Dec 17 '14 at 14:46
Something like english language :D – Raj Dec 17 '14 at 14:47
Thank goodness for this post. I was driving myself crazy trying things like `3pm today` instead of `today 3pm`. – Ryan Feb 26 '16 at 22:26

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '14 at 14:52

The best way to do this is using date_create_from_format. Checking out format's parameters, you will end up with something like this:

    $date = date_create_from_format('d/m/Y ga', '17/12/2014 8pm');
    if (!empty($date)) {//returns false if can't create date
        $timestamp = $date->getTimestamp();
        //echo date('d/m/Y H:i:s', $timestamp);
    }

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