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strtotime

(PHP3 >= 3.0.12, PHP4 >= 4.0b2)

strtotime --  Parse about any english textual datetime description into a UNIX timestamp

Description

int strtotime (string time [, int now])

The function expects to be given a string containing an english date format and will try to parse that format into a UNIX timestamp.

Example 1. Strtotime() example


echo strtotime ("10 march 2000") . "\n";


User Contributed Notes: strtotime

pop3@f2s.com
01-Jul-2000 03:18
it seems what you cannot pas to strtotime() function string containing more spaces than required:
"Wed Jun 7 09:13:58 2000 -0800" (after 'Jun' there are 2 spaces)

php even crashes in such situation

dadams@bulbs.com
08-Jul-2000 05:08
Is there any quick way to get the current date and time. Also, is there a way to do something like strtotime ("now + 30 days"); ?

brett@socket7.net
08-Jul-2000 07:55
Try:

$now = time();
$thirty_days_from_now = ($now+2592000);


12-Jul-2000 01:00
strototime( "2000-01-01 00:00" ) only works in the latest version of PHP.

bens@saber.net
20-Jul-2000 08:10
I've noticed -- date functions are very WEAK at best with PHP.

This is one area that needs some attention!

Also, for some reason, if I input "July 25, 2000, convert to unix timestamp, and then use date("m/d/Y") I get 07/24/2000!

There's a BUG here someplace... (using 4.0.1 PHP)


paul@silksystems.com
21-Jul-2000 08:34
<pre>
yup - theres definately a bug in this func - it seems to loose a day when parsing the time.

you put in 07/21/2000 - it returns 07/20/2000
</pre>

chuck@leaseyourmind.com
24-Jul-2000 10:37
As seen on the bugs page, this time loss is due to timezone settings.

jsteele@srksys.com
03-Aug-2000 10:57
The lost day bug I think has to do with the timestamp. At least in my case if you do not specify a time on your date then when the date is inserted into you db with a unix time stamp it inserts 00:00:00 or something like that... according to php that is not actually the day but the day before. so Tue Jul 11 00:00:00 2000 PDT is seen by php as Wed Jul 10 2000 since the hours, minutes and seconds are all zero. Anyone have a work around?
-joel



antti@artecdesign.ee
14-Aug-2000 06:44
It seems like strtotime adds some missing parts to the string given. I thought that it'd be nice way to convert times (from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59) to seconds but no. When I gave some timestring to strtotime then it returned me smth like "08/14/2000 10:00:00" (timestamp converted by strftime).
IMHO it would be nice if this function would'nt decide what I want but would let ME to decide what I want to get out of it.

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