RE: [PHP] unix timestamp
| From: | Jon Haworth | Date: | Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:40:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] unix timestamp | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi Andy,
> I am trying to create a unix timestamp which dates back
> a certain amount of days. Lets say I would like to have
> a unix timestamp from 7 days ago.
> what I tryed is just to subtract values since this are
> counted s since the start of the unix epoche, but this
> does not work in cases like the switch of months.
A quick and dirty way is to subtract 86400 from the current timestamp to
push it back one day, so it would be (7*86400)=604800 for a week.
This isn't the best method though - you should be able to do calculations
within mktime().
If you post the code you tried we can have a look.
Cheers
Jon