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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 is strtotime() giving the wrong date?

I'm using the following code $t = strtotime('Saturday, 28 Dec, 2013'); echo date('d/m/Y H:i',$t); // output : 03/01/2015 20:13 $t = strtotime('Wednesday, 01 Jan, 2014'); echo date('d/m/Y H:i',$t); // output: 01/01/2014 20:14 The first example…
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STRTOTIME to find current week, date for Monday and Saturday, PHP

I have these lines: $staticstart = date('Y-m-d',strtotime('last Monday')); $staticfinish = date('Y-m-d',strtotime('next Saturday')); And I am using them to select the monday and saturday of the current week, But when it is actually Monday, it…
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PHP - using date to find out daylight savings time

I want to give date() a date and have it return if that date is DST or not. Running PHP 5.4.7 via xampp on a windows 7 box. A linux box running PHP 5.2.8 returns 0 no matter what date I give it. What's wrong with my code? echo date('I',…
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php strtotime does not work

I got an issue on below script, assume $exp_date is retrieved from db, I want to compare expiry date with today date to check whether membership's is still alive. There is nothing to display but only Time Expired, what's wrong with the code? The…
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php string in a date format, add 12 hours

I have this string object in my php array "2013-03-05 00:00:00+00" I would like to add 12 hours to the entry within PHP, then save it back to string in the same format I believe this involves converting the string to a date object. But I'm not sure…
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Convert strtotime() to StrFTime()

I was asked to write a module for our billing system and completed it using all of the functions I am accustomed to. It was tested on an English setup, but I did not take into account (nor was I aware of) the fact the actual system our company uses…
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Computing relative dates in php using strtotime()

I'm looking for a reliable way to return the full date of a specified weekday (e.g. "Mon") for the current week. Since today is Wednesday, June 13, 2012, I expected to result in 2012-06-11,…
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Get timestamp from date('z') and year

I know the year and the day of year (0-365). Is there any way to get back from it to timestamp? Something like: $day=date('z'); $year=2012; $timestamp=strtotime($day.'-nd day of '.$year);
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php: strtotime("12/31/2004 +6 month")); not returning the last day of June

I expected this functional to return 6/30/2005 instead of 7/1/2005. print date("m/d/Y", strtotime("12/31/2004 +6 month")); Similarly, print date("m/d/Y", strtotime("1/31/2011 +1 month")) returns 03/03/2011 while would like it to return…
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strtotime equivalent in .NET

Is there an equivalent of PHP's strtotime() function working on .NET Framework. I'm talking about it's capacity to handle strings likes: strtotime("now") strtotime("10 September 2000") strtotime("+1 day") strtotime("+1 week") strtotime("+1 week 2…
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string to time over 24 hour in php

There is a synatax errro your variable name is $hour but in last you have used $hours. $time1 = strtotime("02:40:00"); $time2 = strtotime("34:20:00"); $diff = $time2 - $time1; $hour = floor($diff / (60 * 60)); $minute = $diff - $hour * (60 *…
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strtotime and date not outputting correctly

I am having trouble echoing out the correct unix timestamp for the date saved in the database. $activeWorkRow['WorkDate'] = "9/24/2015 1:45:53 PM"; $locateDate = $activeWorkRow['WorkDate']; $locateDate = str_replace('/', '-',…
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php first and last weekday (workable Mon-Fri) of month using simple strtotime

Solved! i leave it here for you. This two lines of code are ok for the first workable day: date('d-m-Y',strtotime('+0 weekdays October 2016')) Returns : 3-10-2016 --> OK date('d-m-Y', strtotime('weekday february 2016')) Returns : 1-2-2016 …
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Converting date (with milliseconds) into timestamp

I have date format like '25 May 2016 10:45:53:567'. I want to convert into the time stamp. strtotime function returns empty. $date = '25 May 2016 10:45:53:567'; echo strtotime($date); // returns empty When I removed the milliseconds, it's…
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Store date of birth in database as UNIX time?

I want to store the date of birth as a UNIX timestamp in my database, because this keeps the database small and it speed up the queries. However, when converting the date of birth to a UNIX time using strtotime, it will output the wrong value,…
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