PHP function for parsing about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp
Samples
strtotime('first day of this month');
strtotime('last day of this month');
strtotime('-1 month'); # current date -1 month
Questions tagged [strtotime]
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PHP strtotime: Get previous month
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How to get previous month and year relative to today, using strtotime and date?
Today is December, 31st but strtotime("-1 months") returns December:
echo date("Y-m", strtotime("-1 months"));
Same for strtotime("last…
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Determine If Business Is Open/Closed Based On Business Hours
My code works fine if the times are AM to PM (Ex: 11 AM - 10 PM), but if the locations hours of operation are AM to AM (Ex: 9 AM - 1 AM) it breaks. Here is my code:
$datedivide = explode(" - ", $day['hours']); //$day['hours'] Example 11:00 AM -…
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Check if timestamp is x hours old?
Simple question, but I couldn't find any related topics that match this exact scenario. Everything I found involved MySQL or date and time rather than just time.
I have a timestamp stored in a variable in the format of:
1325960262
Produced by:…
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PHP strtotime +1 month behaviour
I know about the unwanted behaviour of PHP's function
strtotime
For example, when adding a month (+1 month) to dates like: 31.01.2011 -> 03.03.2011
I know it's not officially a PHP bug, and that this solution has some arguments behind it, but at…
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php function for get all mondays within date range
Example:
$startDate is Monday 2007-02-05 and $endDate is Tuesday 2007-02-20. Then I want it to list:
Monday 2007-02-05
Monday 2007-02-12
Monday 2007-02-19
I looked at the PHP manual and found this to get all the days between two dates. But how to…
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PHP, use strtotime to subtract minutes from a date-time variable?
I need to subtract 45 minutes from the date-time variable in PHP.
The code:
$thestime = '2012-07-27 20:40';
$datetime_from = date("Y-m-d h:i",strtotime("-45 minutes",strtotime($thestime)));
echo $datetime_from;
returns the result 2012-07-27 07:55. …
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PHP strtotime() function wrong by 1 hour?
I am converting dates and times into timestamps using PHP before they are inserted into my MySQL database.
My problem is that when i use PHP's strtotime function the output timestamp is -1 hour behind my actual time.
For example, considering todays…
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php get microtime from date string
I am trying to get the time passed between two datetime strings (including milliseconds)
example:
$pageTime = strtotime("2012-04-23T16:08:14.9-05:00");
$rowTime = strtotime("2012-04-23T16:08:16.1-05:00");
$timePassed = $rowTime - $pageTime;
echo…
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PHP date() and strtotime() return wrong months on 31st
I'm using date()and strtotime() functions to display the next 3 months in a dropdown list.
PHP Code:
echo date("m/Y",strtotime("+0 months"));
echo date("m/Y",strtotime("+1 months"));
echo date("m/Y",strtotime("+2 months"));
However, if…
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How to get date from week number & day number and year?
I'm trying to get the date from the week number, day number and year.
For eg:
week number = 52
day number = 4 (of week 52)
year = 2013
In this case, the date should be 26-12-2013.
How can I do it using PHP? I've already tried with…
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PHP check if timestamp is greater than 24 hours from now
I have software that needs to determine if the cutoff datetime is greater than 24 hours from now. Here is the code I have to test that.
$date = strtotime("2013-07-13") + strtotime("05:30:00");
if($date > time() + 86400) {
echo 'yes';
} else…
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PHP Strtotime -1month -2month
This was working fine yesterday with no changes to the code.
echo date("M", strtotime("-3 month", time()) );
echo date("M", strtotime("-2 month", time()) );
echo date("M", strtotime("-1 month", time()) );
echo date("M", time());
The output it was…
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PHP - Using strtotime with a UK date format (dd-mm-yy)
Quite simply in PHP I have a date of 8th January 2011, in the format 08-01-11 - when I run this into strtotime and convert it back into a different date format, it reverts back to 1st August 2011 - not ideal!
Is there any easy way around this,…
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php check for a valid date, weird date conversions
Is there a way to check to see if a date/time is valid you would think these would be easy to check:
$date = '0000-00-00';
$time = '00:00:00';
$dateTime = $date . ' ' . $time;
if(strtotime($dateTime)) {
// why is this valid?
}
what really gets…
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PHP - Strtotime - Add hours
I have this variable:
$timestamp = strftime("%Y-%m-%d %h:%M:%S %a", time ());
I simply want to add three hours and echo it out.
I have seen the way where you can do the 60 * 60 * 3 method or the hard code "+ 3 hours" where it understands the…
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