Check time between two times

Question

All I want to check if current time is between 2 times

I browsed multiple scripts so far but all the scripts include also the date or is just to difficult, or the script counts only full hours like 6 or 7, while I need to check with hour and minutes

I would appreciate the help, the script setting I would like is

$begintime = 8:30;
$endtime = 17:00;

if(currenttime is between $begintime and $endtime) {
    // do something
} else {
    // do something else
}

private function is_between_times($from, $to) { $Carbon = new Carbon(); $from = $Carbon->createFromFormat('H:i:s', $from); $to = $Carbon->createFromFormat('H:i:s', $to); return $Carbon->now()->between($from, $to); } — Marlon Bernal, Jul 22 '18 at 03:16

Finwe · Answer 1 · 2018-11-29T09:01:56.807

Use DateTime object in the definition. It will internally use current date which can be then ignored in comparison.

$now = new DateTime();
$begin = new DateTime('8:00');
$end = new DateTime('17:00');

if ($now >= $begin && $now <= $end)

Advanced: for this to be bulletproof even when date changes during execution (DateTime objects can some have a 1-day-off date), re-set the date from the $now to the $start and $end DateTime object to:

$y = (int) $now->format('Y');
$m = (int) $now->format('n'); // n is the month without leading zeros
$d = (int) $now->format('d');

$begin->setDate($y, $m, $d);
$end->setDate($y, $m, $d);

Alternatively, check the Brick\DateTime extensions where LocalTime class can be found which ignores date.

@user2461508 Could you mark the answer as accepted? – Finwe Jan 09 '18 at 16:13 — Finwe, Jan 09 '18 at 16:13

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 14 '16 at 15:11

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Check out the DateTime function of PHP.

$now = new Datetime("now");
$begintime = new DateTime('08:30');
$endtime = new DateTime('17:00');

if($now >= $begintime && $now <= $endtime){
    // between times
    echo "yay";
} else {
    // not between times
    echo "nay";
}

Also, make sure that your timezone is correctly set in your php.ini. Or you can set it on runtime with date_default_timezone_set();

answered Jul 14 '16 at 15:11

Sam

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thanks, this helps alot @sam – user2461508 Jul 15 '16 at 05:52

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 10 '18 at 18:58

Check out. I test this code. It works fine.

date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Kolkata");
$current_time = date("h:i a");
$begin = "9:00 am";
$end   = "5:00 pm";

$date1 = DateTime::createFromFormat('H:i a', $current_time);
$date2 = DateTime::createFromFormat('H:i a', $begin);
$date3 = DateTime::createFromFormat('H:i a', $end);

if ($date1 > $date2 && $date1 < $date3) {
   echo 'Here';
} else {
   echo 'Not';
}

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