strtotime examples

Examples for strtotimeHere are some example strtotime syntaxes for PHP. Leave a comment with an example if you like.

strtotime(‘today 14:00’);
strtotime(‘tomorrow 14:00’);
strtotime(‘tomorrow 2:00pm’);
strtotime(‘now +2 hours’);
strtotime(‘now +2 minutes’);
strtotime(‘now +24 hours’);
strtotime(‘now +12 hours’);
strtotime(‘today +3 days’);
strtotime(‘now +5 days’);

A Quick reference of accepted input:

Numeric steps (+1, -1 …)
Numeric date/time (Y-m-d, H:i:s)
Ordinal names / numbers [first – twelfth = 1 – 12] *
Special ordinal name / numbers (last = -1, this = 0, next = 1)
Special words (tomorrow, yesterday, ago, fortnight, now, today,
day, week, month, year, hour, minute, min, second, sec) **
Days / months [sunday – saterday, sun – sat, January – December, Jan – Dec]
Timezones (TZ=”…”)

\* second is reserved for seconds in time notation, therefore is not allowed here

\*\* plurals are also allowed by adding an ‘s’

via php manual

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