Adding hours to date() ?

Pellefant

Hello!

I do have date("g:i A");

How do I please add(or decrease) it with $time1 which is an int value between -12 to +12 (hours).

codeDV

Aquire a time stamp which is in seconds and multiply the value for your hour by 60 twice and then add it to the timestamp. This little script demonstrates what i mean:

<?php
$hours = 5;

echo ("Fisrt date " . ($date = "1:13PM") . "<br>");

echo("Time stamp: " . ($timestamp = strtotime($date)). "<br>");

$timestamp += $hours * 60 * 60;

echo ("New time: " . date("g:i:A", $timestamp));

?>

The strtotime() function attempts to evaluate a string containing a date and convert it to a UNIX time stamp. Click on a link above to find all the different strings this function will convert. If it fails to convert the string, it will return -1.

Pellefant

Hello!

Thanks, I got your example to work.

But.... I am having trouble when I am using it in my code:

GMT:
<?php
$servertime=date("g:i A");

$timestamp = strtotime($servertime). "<br>";
$timestamp += 5 * 60 * 60;
$gmt= date("g:i:A", $timestamp);
echo $gmt;
?>

Swedish time:
<?
$hours1=2;
$timestamp = strtotime($gmt). "<br>";
$timestamp += $hours1 * 60 * 60;
$time1= date("g:i:A", $timestamp);
echo $time1;
?>

The GMT times is working fine, but the Swedish time has always showing 8:59😛M for some reason. 🙁

Output: GMT: 7:03😛M Swedish time: 8:59😛M

Anyone has an idea please?

ir4z0r

try this:

echo strtotime ("+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds"); says the manual,
so I guess strtotime ("+2 hours") is what you need

Pellefant

This did the trick. 🙂

//GMT 
echo gmdate("g:i:A"); 

echo " Swedish time: "; 
$hours1 = 2; 
echo gmdate("g:i:A", time()+ $hours1*60*60);