How to check if right now is between 8:45am and 3pm?

[Gary_King]

What's the best way for me to check if the time of execution is between 8:45am and 3pm (EST)?

Anyone able to help me code this?

Thanks in advance!

[devinemke]

assuming your server is in the Eastern Time zone:

$start = strtotime('today 8:45am');
$end = strtotime('today 3:00pm');
$now = time();

if ($now >= $start && $now <= $end) {echo 'yes, right now is between 8:45am and 3pm';}
else {echo 'no, right now is not between 8:45am and 3pm';}

if not you would have offset the timestamps for whatever timezone you are in