Cron Job Help

[Anon]

Hello all,

I have a flat file that contains this date format:

Dec:10:13:19:14

Month😃ay:Hour:Minute:Second

My daily cron will read each entry in this flat file.

How do I code to detect for a date/time that is over 12 hours old?

Thanks,

gary

[pacmon]

It should be something like this:

$filedate = date you read from flat file

//seperate the pieces of the date
list($datearray[0],$datearray[1],$datearray[2],$datearray[3],$datearray[4]) = explode(":",$filedate);

$datearray[2]+=12;
if ($datearray[2] > 24)
{
$datearray[1] += 1;
$datearray[2]=$datearray[2]-24;
}
implode(":",$datearray);
if ($filedate >= date("M:d:h:i:s"))
{
//12 hours has passed
}

this SHOULD work. I've never really tried it before.. so it's a guess...give it a try and let me know.

[pacmon]

NOTE:

$datearray[2]=$datearray[2]-24;
}

$filedate = implode(":",$datearray);

if ($filedate >= date("M:d:h:i:s"))

forgot to set $filedate equal to the implode result