My understanding is that datetimes in php are represented as the number of milliseconds after a certain date (some time in 1960 I think?). How to I construct a datetime that represents the earliest allowable date in php? An example possible syntax would be:
$date = new DateTime(0);
but this doesn't work. Is there some other way to do this?
Thanks for any input.
You're pretty close
$date = (new DateTime())->setTimestamp(0);
Will give January 1st, 1970
I think the smallest and largest dates that the DateTime object will accept are as follows (on a 64 bit machine as of PHP 7.4, demonstrated using PHPUnit). This can be useful in providing default mins and maxes on a date validator for both DateTime as well as Carbon. This answer is also posted in the user contributed notes of the PHP manual page for DateTime::__construct().
If you want to get very precise about it, modify the code below to account for time and timezone.
// smallest date
$input = '-9999-01-01';
$dt = new \DateTime($input);
self::assertEquals($input, $dt->format('Y-m-d'));
$input = '-10000-12-31';
$dt = new \DateTime($input);
self::assertEquals('2000-12-31', $dt->format('Y-m-d'));
// largest date
$input = '9999-12-31';
$dt = new \DateTime($input);
self::assertEquals($input, $dt->format('Y-m-d'));
$input = '10000-01-01';
$dt = new \DateTime($input);
self::assertEquals('2000-01-01', $dt->format('Y-m-d'));
echo date('d-m-Y', 0); // outputs: 01-01-1970
epoch 0 gives the unix timestamp 01-01-1970 or 00:00:00 UTC on January 1st 1970.
Related
I have an application that needs to send a UTC timestamp in order for it to work correctly. In my application a user can have any number of timezones. So if they pick 3pm and their timezone is America/New_York, it is a different 3pm than if it was America/Chicago.
I need to figure out a way to change the date into the right UTC timestamp. I know I can use date_default_timezone_set("UTC")...but I don't think will work correctly.
I think I need to calculate a difference between UTC and regular timezone, but I am not sure. Any advice is welcomes.
date_default_timezone_set("UTC");
echo strtotime('5/13/2014 3:00 PM');
1399993200
date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York");
echo strtotime('5/13/2014 3:00 PM');
1400007600
As you can tell these 2 values are different.
EDIT: Here is what my code looks like. It doesn't seem to work correctly as the application doesn't show the event in the right time.
$previous_timezone = date_default_timezone_get();
date_default_timezone_set("UTC");
$aceroute_schedule = $this->sale_lib->get_send_to_aceroute_schedule();
if (($start_time = strtotime($aceroute_schedule['aceroute_schedule_date']. ' '.$aceroute_schedule['aceroute_schedule_time_start'])) !== FALSE)
{
//Append 000 as as string for 32 bit systems
$start_epoch = $start_time.'000';
$end_epoch = strtotime('+ '.$aceroute_schedule['aceroute_duration'].' minutes', $start_time).'000';
}
else //Default to current time + 1 hour
{
//Append 000 as as string for 32 bit systems
$start_epoch = time().'000';
$end_epoch = strtotime('+1 hour', time()).'000';
}
$event->start_epoch = $start_epoch;
$event->end_epoch = $end_epoch;
Update:
This will now create a DateTime object in the user's DateTimeZone ('America/New_York'). And then it will set that object's timezone to UTC. To get the timestamp (or other string representations of date), use ::format().
# Create NY date
$NY = new DateTimeZone("America/New_York");
$NYdate = new DateTime('5/13/2014 3:00 PM', $NY);
# Set timezone to UTC
$UTC = new DateTimeZone("UTC");
$UTCdate = $NYdate->setTimezone($UTC);
# Get timestamp (PHP 5.2 compatible)
$timezone = $UTCdate->format('U');
var_dump($timezone); // a string containing UNIX timestamp
First I create 2 DateTime objects based off of their respective DateTimeZone objects. Then we can either use OOP ::diff() to get another object containing information about the time difference. Or we can use simple integers representing the difference in seconds from ::getTimestamp.
$date = '5/13/2014 3:00 PM';
# Create NY date
$NY = new DateTimeZone("America/New_York");
$NYdate = new DateTime($date, $NY);
# Create UTC date
$UTC = new DateTimeZone("UTC");
$UTCdate = new DateTime($date, $UTC);
# Find difference object
$diff = $NYdate->diff($UTCdate);
var_dump($diff); // a DateInterval object containing time difference info
# Find difference in seconds
$diff = $NYdate->getTimestamp() - $UTCdate->getTimestamp();
var_dump($diff); // an integer containing time difference in seconds
Links:
DateTimeZone
DateTime
DateInterval
Example in http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.settimezone.php
$date = new DateTime('2000-01-01', new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Nauru'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";
$date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Chatham'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n";
The first line creates a DateTIme object, using the timezone Pacific/Nauru.
You can then change the timezone using setTimezone as shown in line 4, and the output will be modified accordingly.
note: the default timezone (if you don't specify it in the 2nd parameter in line 1) is the one set in your php.ini file, which you can modify (at runtime) with date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York")
note2: the 1st parameter in line 1, is equivalent to the 1st parameter of the strtotime function.
note3: the format method takes the same format parameter as date (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php)
I' am trying to convert the date of next 7 days into timestamp so that I can compare against my date timestamp in database to get some results.
This function is used to get the next 7 days from today
$next_date = date("d/m/Y", strtotime("7 day"))
Output
30/04/2014
Now I' am again running strtotime() on $next_date variable who holds the next 7days and converting to timestamp.
echo strtotime($next_date);
This is not working. I followed this stackoverflow answer and few others.
As an alternative suggestion you could look at PHP's internal DateTime() and DateInterval() classes. It makes it a bit easier to convert between formats and do date/time addition and subtraction imho. DateInterval requires at least PHP version 5.3.
An example:
// create a current DateTime
$currDate = new DateTime();
// copy the current DateTime and
// add an interval of 7 days
$nextDate = clone $currDate;
$nextDate->add(new DateInterval('P7D'));
// both objects are easily converted to timestamps
echo $currDate->getTimestamp(); // e.g: 1398296728
echo $nextDate->getTimestamp(); // e.g: 1398901528
// and both can be easily formatted in other formats
echo $currDate->format('d/m/Y'); // e.g: 24/04/2014
echo $nextDate->format('d/m/Y'); // e.g: 01/05/2014
EDIT
For completeness, here's another example of how you can add seven days to a DateTime object:
$now = new DateTimeImmutable();
$then = $now->modify('+7 days');
var_dump($now->format('Y-m-d'), $then->format('Y-m-d'));
Yields:
string(10) "2016-05-24"
string(10) "2016-05-31"
You can also use DateTime - the difference in this use case is that DateTime::modify() will modify the instance $now where DateTimeImmutable::modify() will return a new DateTimeImmutable object - so if you need to create a new object whilst retaining the old one, it's probably the most succinct approach.
Hope this helps :)
http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.construct.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/dateinterval.construct.php
Just store the value from strtotime first?
$timestamp_in_7_days = strtotime('7 day');
$next_date = date('d/m/Y', $timestamp_in_7_days);
There is no need to throw the time back and forth between unix timestamp and date-format.
I need a date object that has a time of 12:00:00am for the current day (meaning no seconds). I am converting that to that to the number of seconds and passing it in another function. It is eventually used for a report filter using date = "someDateHere' off the database, and the hanging seconds in the field are screwing up the report.
I'm not sure what to put in the second parameter in the time function - leaving it blank will use the current time, which is what I do not want. I can't find examples or anything in the php doc. If there is another function that will do the job, I am open to suggestions. This should be simple, but it is alluding me.
date_default_timezone_set('America/Detroit');
$now = date("Y-m-d 0:0:0");
echo $now . '<br/>';
$now = time($now,0);
echo $now . '<br/>';
Thanks in advance.
edit: Please note: I need to convert that date object to seconds. That is where the timestamp is screwing me up with strtotime function and time function. Even though I am passing it a dateobject without a timestamp, converting it into seconds not-so-conveniently is inserting the timestamp as the second parameter which defaults to the current time.
There are lots of available options here, since PHP accepts a wide variety of time formats.
$midnight = strtotime('midnight');
$midnight = strtotime('today');
$midnight = strtotime('12:00am');
$midnight = strtotime('00:00');
// etc.
Or in DateTime form:
$midnight = new DateTime('midnight');
$midnight = new DateTime('today');
$midnight = new DateTime('12:00am');
$midnight = new DateTime('00:00');
// etc.
See time formats and relative formats in the manual for a complete list of formats with descriptions.
Oh, I'd stop using those functions entirely, and start taking advantage of the DateTime class!
$date = new DateTime("now", new DateTimeZone("America/Detroit"));
echo $date->format("Y-m-d");
http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php
time() takes no arguments. what you're doing is pointless. why not just strtotime(date('Y-m-d')) to get the unix timestamp for midnight?
i think mktime() is just what you need http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php
<?php
// Set the default timezone to use. Available as of PHP 5.1
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
// Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
// Prints something like: 2006-04-05T01:02:03+00:00
echo date('c', mktime(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2006));
?>
I want to store the current date generated from PHP into MongoDB collection as an ISO date formate.
ISODate("2012-11-02T08:40:12.569Z")
However I am not able to generate such Kind of date in php which will be stored in MongoDB as an ISODate format.
This is what I ve done.
$d = new MongoDate(time());
echo $d;
and it is outputting something like,
0.00000000 1353305590
which is not the format I need. How to do this?
You could run the __toString function, or use the sec field
__toString will return a timestamp in usecs, which you can pass to date() after separating the seconds from milliseconds - read here: http://us1.php.net/manual/en/mongodate.tostring.php
OR, I personally prefer to have mongodb return just the seconds, which can be plugged directly into date() - read here: http://php.net/manual/en/class.mongodate.php
Also, if you're generating a MongoDate() for right now, you don't need to specify time();
In order to return an isodate, you need to do this:
echo date(DATE_ISO8601, (new MongoDate())->sec);
...
$exampleDate = new MongoDate();
echo date(DATE_ISO8601, $exampleDate->sec);
EDIT: To save your ISO date, you need to do the following:
$mongoDateObject = new MongoDate(strtotime("2012-11-02T08:40:12.569Z"));
For clarity, let's consider the following use case:
You need to convert a string in the simplified extended ISO 8601 format (e.g. returned by Javascript's Date.prototype.toISOString()) to and from PHP's MongoDate object, while preserving maximum precision during conversion.
In this format, the string is always 24 characters long: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. The timezone is always zero UTC offset, as denoted by the suffix Z.
To keep milliseconds, we'll have to leverage PHP's DateTime object.
From string to MongoDate:
$stringDt = "2015-10-07T14:28:41.545Z";
Method 1 (using date_create_from_format):
$phpDt = date_create_from_format('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.uP', $stringDt);
$MongoDt = new \MongoDate($phpDt->getTimestamp(), $phpDt->format('u'));
Method 2 (using strtotime):
$MongoDt= new \MongoDate(strtotime ($stringDt),
1000*intval(substr($stringDt, -4, 3)) // cut msec portion, convert msec to usec
);
From MongoDate to string:
$MongoDt = new \MongoDate(); // let's take now for example
$stringDt =
substr(
(new \DateTime())
->setTimestamp($MongoDt->sec)
->setTimeZone(new \DateTimeZone('UTC'))
->format(\DateTime::ISO8601),
0, -5) // taking the beginning of DateTime::ISO8601-formatted string
.sprintf('.%03dZ', $MongoDt->usec / 1000); // adding msec portion, converting usec to msec
Hope this helps.
convert ISO date time in UTC date time here :
$timestamp = $quicky_created_date->__toString(); //ISO DATE Return form mongo database
$utcdatetime = new MongoDB\BSON\UTCDateTime($timestamp);
$datetime = $utcdatetime->toDateTime();
$time=$datetime->format(DATE_RSS);
$dateInUTC=$time;
$time = strtotime($dateInUTC.' UTC');
$dateInLocal = date("d M Y", $time);
echo $dateInLocal; die;
You can convert ISODate time by using below code.
* return ISO-8601 date format:YYYY-MM-DD'T'HH:mm:ss.sssXXX , for example: 2015-09-07T10:13:45.110-07:00 .
*/
date("Y-m-d\TH:i:s.000P", strtotime($date));
I have a year (2002) and I'm trying to get it into the following format:
2002-00-00T00:00:00
I tried various iterations, the last of which was this:
$testdate = DateTime::createFromFormat(DateTime::ISO8601, date("c"))
echo date_format($testdate, '2002');
But, even if I come close, it always seems to add +00:00 to the end of it...
The 'c' format in PHP always appends the timezone offset. You can't avoid that. But you can build the date yourself from components:
date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s', $testdate);
Best way is to use constants (PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PHP 7)
date(DATE_ISO8601, $timeToChange);
Docs:
http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetimeinterface.php#datetime.constants.types
The problem many times occurs with the milliseconds and final microseconds that many times are in 4 or 8 finals. To convert the DATE to ISO 8601 "date(DATE_ISO8601)" these are one of the solutions that works for me:
// In this form it leaves the date as it is without taking the current date as a reference
$dt = new DateTime();
echo $dt->format('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.').substr($dt->format('u'),0,3).'Z';
// return-> 2020-05-14T13:35:55.191Z
// In this form it takes the reference of the current date
echo date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s'.substr((string)microtime(), 1, 4).'\Z');
return-> 2020-05-14T13:35:55.191Z
// Various examples:
$date_in = '2020-05-25 22:12 03.056';
$dt = new DateTime($date_in);
echo $dt->format('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.').substr($dt->format('u'),0,3).'Z';
// return-> 2020-05-25T22:12:03.056Z
//In this form it takes the reference of the current date
echo date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s'.substr((string)microtime(), 1, 4).'\Z',strtotime($date_in));
// return-> 2020-05-25T14:22:05.188Z
Previous published: https://stackoverflow.com/a/61796705/5898408
date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z', time() - date('Z'));