Topic: strtotime() sporadic? (Page 1 of 1)

Hey all,

I spent most of the afternoon yesterday trying to figure out why the following code....

$date = strtotime("+17 hours", strtotime(date("Y-m-d h:i:s")));
		echo date("Y-m-d", $date);

....would not display the next days date. I finally gave up on it for the night, then to my surprise found that it is working this morning (without any change). I'm more used to mktime and have just recently started playing around with strtotime, I wonder am I missing something?

man.

uh

try this:

$date=strtotime('+17 hours', time());

That will display whatever date is 17 hours from now. To just display tomorrow's date...

$date=strtotime('tomorrow', time());

-S

(Edited by twItch^ on 11-12-2008 18:05)

Right,

My actual implementation is a little more complex so I just broke it down to the problem I found...

date("Y-m-d h:i:s")

Could be any date... and

"+17 hours"

could be any number of hours.

Well, I've never had any sporadic behavior. Just so long as you're aware +17 hours won't return tomorrow's date all the time.

Could you explain, more specifically, what sorts of behavior you're not expecting?

-S

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twItch^ said:
Just so long as you're aware +17 hours won't return tomorrow's date all the time.

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Lol, yeah... It was almost a mistake that simple. In my time I'm passing lowercase 'h' (not military). So the function was assuming it was always morning. Chaning to 'H' fixed it up. That explains why it seemed sporadic, in the morning hours it was spot-on, in the afternoon it was a day behind :P

Thanks for your time twitch!