Re: Dates and Date()
| From: | Andrey Hristov | Date: | Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:59:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Dates and Date() | ||
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher J. Crane" <ccrane@inxdesign.com>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 5:51 PM
Subject: [PHP] Dates and Date()
> I believethisto be one way to find out yesterday's date:
> $tomorrow = mktime (0,0,0,date("m") ,date("d")-1,date("Y"));
>
> However, I would like to have a snippet of code to tell me how to get the
> date of today - 10 days ago.
>
> if today is jul 29, 2002, how do I get the date funtion to tell me 10 days
> ago. with jul 29, 2002 as the date it would be easy, just subtract 10 from
> 29, but what happens if the date was jul 2, 2002. How do I get the correct
> date returned????
All date functions handle correctly this case
so echo strftime('%m:%d:%Y', gmmktime(0,0,0,7,2-10,2002));
will be:
06:22:2002
You can add/substract what you wish and will get correct results in case the
the resulting timestamp is between 1.1.1970 and somewhere in year 2038.
Best regards,
Andrey Hristov