[RESOLVED] mktime not showing correct hour?

noimad1

Ok, I have the strangest issue.

I'm using the following function:


$now = mktime(date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A'));

$time = date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A', $now);

echo "$time";

And for some reason, the date, minutes, and seconds are fine. However, the hour always shows either 12 or 1 and the A/M P/M always shows A/M?

Anyone ever run across this before?

Also, when I just run the date function like this:

echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');

Everything shows up fine?

HalfaBee

because mktime does not take a string as it parameters.

noimad1

HalfaBee;10895412 wrote:
because mktime does not take a string as it parameters.

Since when? I've been using mktime for years and never had problems with items like:

$time = mktime(now).

And why would the seconds, minutes, day and month come back fine?

HalfaBee

You have been lucky. 🙂

from the manual.

int mktime ( [int $hour [, int $minute [, int $second [, int $month [, int $day [, int $year [, int $is_dst]]]]]]] )

I see no string there.

Arguments may be left out in order from right to left; any arguments thus omitted will be set to the current value according to the local date and time.

NogDog

Are you sure you aren't thinking of [man]strtotime/man that accepted strings?

PS: If you just want the current time, [man]date/man with only the first argument (the format string) is sufficient, as it defaults to the current time if no second argument is provided (which must be an integer value representing a UNIX timestamp).

noimad1

I'm sure mktime accepted the date function and certain strings passed to it.

Try it on your own server - mktime(now).

NogDog

What's happening is that PHP expects an integer for each argument to mktime(). It therefore casts the string "now" to an integer, which will become a zero. This means it's equivalent to mktime(0), which will return the a timestamp for the current date-time, except the hour will be set to 0 (the first arg is the hour, the other omitted arguments will default to the current time's values).

HalfaBee

Why don't you just accept that the manual is correct?

It takes int's not a string.
PHP will convert a string into a number if it expects an int.
So "Mon ..." gets converted to 0.

noimad1

NogDog;10895541 wrote:
What's happening is that PHP expects an integer for each argument to mktime(). It therefore casts the string "now" to an integer, which will become a zero. This means it's equivalent to mktime(0), which will return the a timestamp for the current date-time, except the hour will be set to 0 (the first arg is the hour, the other omitted arguments will default to the current time's values).

Ah, now that makes sense. Good explanation.

HalfaBee - I wasn't accepting what the manual was saying because it was giving me results. Everything but the hour was working.

So what I was really needing to do is just do mktime() with no arguments to get the current time. I'm going to give that a shot.

Thanks NogDog for the assistance....Thanks HalfaBee for giving me an answer, but not really helping.

HalfaBee

RTFM, http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php

After 5 years of being on this forum, you should know one of php's most basic type handling.

NogDog

To just get the current time as a UNIX timestamp integer, use [man]time/man;

noimad1

HalfaBee;10895644 wrote:
RTFM, http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php

After 5 years of being on this forum, you should know one of php's most basic type handling.

Wow man...why do you even post reply's. You should take some notes from NogDog on how to answer posts. You were absolutely no help, and the cynical and rude responses are not needed.

I was never rude to you until the end. I was explaining what was happening when I ran the code. And all you were telling me is that doesn't work. I was pretty aware that it didn't work.

I reference the php manual very often. And very often things aren't covered for specific functions and ways to use them. After that research is when I post here.

So again, if you aren't going to help, then why post at all?

HalfaBee

Let's see.
Maybe my first post was short and to the point.
My second post gave the definition of mktime and an explanation of what was happening, because you didn't believe my first post.
My third post was a repetition of Nogdog's post, because i got interrupted.
You say I didn't help, I gave you a link to the relevant manual page,to teach you about type juggling which I didn't you should have needed, but obviously did.

I am sorry if RTFM offended you.
I will not post to your threads in the future without being more verbose.