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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
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Why does PHP date('m', strtotime('-1 months')) not work correctly for today? 07/31

I have a script that gets the current and last month in PHP like so: $currentMonth = date('m'); //Expected:07 //Result:07 $lastMonth = date('m', strtotime('-1 months')); //Expected:06 //Result:07 Today happens to be the 31 or end of the month of…
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get strtotime of specific time in php

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.
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PHP strtotime() looks like it is expecting a Euro format

I've been using PHP's strtotime() method to accept a date field on a form. I love how powerful it is, in how it will accept "Tomorrow", "Next Thursday", or (supposedly) any date representation and convert it to the Unix timestamp. It's been working…
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Get dates from next week in PHP

I want to echo the dates from Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa,Su of the next week. My code looks like this at the moment: $date_monday = date("Y-m-d", strtotime('next monday')); $date_tuesday = date("Y-m-d", strtotime('next tuesday')); $date_wednesday =…
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setlocale(LC_ALL, 'it_IT'); set, but still dates in english

I have this code which through json_decode retrieves my latest tweets, their date, etc. "; foreach ($twitter_data as $tweet) { if…
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How to I accurately get current UTC time via strtotime?

In PHP, how do I get the current time, in UTC, without hard coding knowledge of where my hosting provider is? For example, I tried the following: time() + strtotime('January 1, 2000')-strtotime('January 1, 2000 UTC') and find that it reports a time…
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Why does a unix timestamp need to be prefixed by '@' for strtotime() to understand it?

I noticed that strtotime() handles unix timestamps in an odd way, and I was curious if anyone knows why that is: var_export(strtotime('1330725042')); // false var_export(strtotime('@1330725042')); // 1330725042 Why does strtotime() return false…
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Get previous month date range

I need help getting the previous months full date range in the following format: Y-m-d I have successfully been able to get "this" months full date range but not the "previous" months full date range. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Why does strtotime give different result in different timezone?

I am not sure why strtotime() in PHP returns different result in different timezone even though same date is given as parameter, does anyone know the answer? I also want to know, can I do similar task (converting a datetime to an int to do…
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Bug with strtotime PHP

echo date("m", strtotime("january")); Returns 01 as expected echo date("m", strtotime("february")); But this returns 03 Anyone else encountered this problem? PHP Version 5.1.6
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last week, this week (php)

i am making some statistics, i want to select the time from (last week only) and this week. for this week its easy: $start = strtotime('this week'); $finish = time(); for last week $start = strtotime('last week'); $finish = ??????
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Query post_meta date instead of post_date_gmt

I'm limiting my query to use show post from 6 months ago which works fine. But I need it to be based on a date that is in the post_meta table instead of 'post_date_gmt'. In my case I have meta_keys are called payment_date and the values are of…
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Comparing two timestamps in php

SO the scene is, I have a store which opens at 1:00am at night, and closes at 10:00pm. For any current time i just want to check whether that timestamp lies between store open and close times. Yeap that's very simple, and still I don't know why, am…
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Strange behavior with the strtotime function passing a wrong date and time format

I'm trying to understand the following behavior of the date function strtotime(): strtotime(1420066800) returns false, as expected. strtotime(1451602800) returns 26197048320! But expected false as 1451602800 is not a valid date and time format.…
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PHP get next occurrence of Monday from a certain date (with time)

I'm looking for the next Thursday after a specific date, say 2014-02-25. The problem I'm having here is that when I use the below code, the time seems to be erased.
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