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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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strtotime: Check for time

I have a voucher system, where I can enter a date or a date with a time. There should be all valid formats allowed, for example this ones: 01.01.2016 01.01.2016 00:00:00 This I no problem, if I have the start date for a voucher, but it is a…
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Drupal CCK Date: how to set datetime field's default value to a fix date?

I have a CCK datetime field and would like to set its default value to 31 May 2011. When I go to the configuration of the field I can set the default value to Now, Blank or Relative. Relative is to be set by a PHP's strtotime argument. However, it…
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How to convert date and time into unix timestamp in php?

echo $_POST['time']."
"; echo $_POST['day']."
"; echo $_POST['year']."
"; echo $_POST['month']."
"; I have value store like this now I want to create a timestamp from these value. How to do that in PHP? Thanks in advance
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PHP: strtotime returns "nothing" of type "boolean"

I have the variable $EDate, I used strtotime function with this variable with different values and the result was as following: $EDate = 10-21-2013; echo "strtotime($EDate)"; the result = nothing and the type is boolean $EDate = 09-02-2013; …
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strtotime('0000-00-00 00:00') return negative value

Php strtotime('0000-00-00 00:00') showing strange behavior. Its returning negative value something like -62169984000. I have Php version 5.4.17 in my 64-bit System. It should return false value which is expected. But when I checked in other…
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Comparing two Dates using strtotime() in PHP

I have two variables containing strings of dates in the format $four_days_have_passed = "07-14-2013"; $now = "07-10-2013"; I have checked the output in FirePHP and the dates are correct. Then I try to compare them like this, if (strtotime($now) <…
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Check if current time is between two times, with the possibility of lapping days

I have a system that accepts user submissions, and upon receiving a submission the system will go through all timeslots to find the appropriate timeslot. The problem is that it needs to be able to check against the start & end times if the end time…
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Convert specific string to time in PHP

I need to convert a string into date format, but it's returning a weird error. The string is this: 21 nov 2012 I used: $time = strtotime('d M Y', $string); PHP returned the error: Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered in index.php…
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PHP : strtotime() returns always 01/01/1970

I am trying to display dates in the European format (dd/mm/yyyy) with strtotime but it always returns 01/01/1970. Here is my codeline : echo "

".date('d/m/Y', strtotime($row['DMT_DATE_DOCUMENT']))."

"; In my database, the field is a…
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PHP date strtotime not working

I wrote this piece of code echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime($date, strtotime("+ " . $days . " days"))); $date = 2012-04-12 $days = 15 I am looking to add $days (15 days) to the date (2012-04-12) I am expecting to get 2012-04-27 and this code returns…
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fullCalendar daylight savings time error

I have a an application built with the jQuery based fullCalendar http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/ My calendars events are loaded by an Ajax call that outputs JSON, it is configured to have Monday as the first day of the week and the default view is…
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How do I make dates legit/safe before passing it to strtotime()?

Here is what I have now. $date = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc, trim(date('Y-m-d',strtotime($_POST['date'])))); I was told that I need to make sure that the $date is safe/legit before passing it to strtotime(). How do I do that? I've looked up…
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32 hours ago excluding weekends with php

So I have a script that does multiple checks for 32, 48 and 72 hours ago. Basically I check my database for entries that are at least x hours old. Now this works fine like this: $date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime('-32 hours')); $q = "SELECT *…
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php - add two hours to date variable

I want to add 3 minutes to a date/time variable I have, but I'm not sure how to do this. I made the variable from a string like this: (which is in the RFC 2822 date format btw) $date = 2011-10-18T19:56:00+0200 I converted that string into date…
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PHP strtotime() function

I have a file with the following lines. I want to identify lines which have timestamps less than a week from now(starting from aug 22 for this example). log3.txt 28-08-2011 10:29:25 A string 29-08-2011 14:29:25 A new string 20-08-2011 14:29:25 Don’t…
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