Okay so I have an array of results from a table, we have a start and end time we are retrieving. the start/end time would look something like this:
1345497551
Now I'm trying to convert this to a real time, for instance 1345497551 might become 2012/05/09 17:23:12 or something. I've found a few things but none seem to work correctly. one solution I tried, according to what someone was saying on another question on here, was
$createdate = date('H:i:s',$numberofsecs);
where $numberofsecs was the time pulled in from the array. but this only ever outputs 17:00:00 repeatedly for every time we had available for testing.
How can I go about making this work correctly?
Assuming that that's a standard unix timestamp string (seconds since midnight 1/1/1970), then you should be able to use date as you mentioned, but just modify the format string:
echo date('Y/m/d H:i:s', $numberofsecs);
The example you mention where you were always getting 17:00:00 could have been because your test cases were all only datestamps, encoded as timestamps, and having an offset from GMT . . .
I have tried below code:
$ts = 1345497551;
$date = new DateTime("#$ts");
echo $date->format('U = Y-m-d H:i:s');
output : 1345497551 = 2012-08-20 21:19:11
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I am trying to get a simple line of text to appear if todays date is after another date.
I can either get it to appear on all pages or none, but I am unable to get it to display based on whether the challenge start date is before or after todays date. I believe it could be a date format issue, but everything I have tried has fallen short.
Here is my code:
Get todays date
$date_now = new dateTime();
Challenge start date
$challengeStartDate = date('dS F Y', strtotime($this->item->start_date));
echo '<!--' . strtotime('1970/1/1 00:00:00 +' . $validity) . '-->';
New text line
if ($challengeStartDate > $date_now) echo "New Text";
date() returns a string. With $challengeStartDate > $date_now it's like comparing if one string is bigger than the other (not sure if your dateTime handles that).
Your approach is otherwise fine. Just use timestamps to compare. time() gets you the time as a Unix timestamp:
$now = time();
if ($now > strtotime($this->item->start_date)) {
// do your thing
}
Something like this is more what you need. Try it out.
I had the very same problem some time ago.
All you need to do is store your local time in a database so it would be saved statically.
Because in your example, both $challengeStartDate and $date_now will change and update simultaneously and you wiill always get the current pc time!
Try storing it in a table or idk maybe sessions would help too.
I am saving the timestamp in SQL as bigint(20). The number is correct and in android or https://www.epochconverter.com it works fine.
However I am not able to create a date-string based on the timestamp received from database.
First of all, the timestamp seems to come from database as a String, so I can't just say echo date("d.m.Y, $timestamp). The result is the famous 31.12.1969.
So I tried echo date("d.m.Y, strtotime($timestamp)). However, even though strtotime is said to be able to convert almost everything to a timestamp, a simple String containing a timestamp is not possible. Results still remained on the last day of Brian Adams probably favorite year.
Some progress I made by casting the $timestamp to a float value like so: echo date("d.m.Y", floatval($timestamp));. However, now things got really confusing for me. I seemed to have successfully converted my timestamp, however, date() gave me the dates around 02.09.52299.
The timestamps I am using are timestamps of current time, e.g. 1588489252657, which currently leads to the date 23.03.52307.
So all I want is to come to a date based on the timestamp 1588489252657 to see the 03.05.2020 on my screen.
Thanks for any advice!
<?php
$timestamp = 1588489252657; // Timestamp in Milliseconds
$seconds = round($timestamp/1000, 0); // Timestamp Rounded to Seconds
$date = new DateTime(); // Create PHP DateTime Object
$date->setTimestamp($seconds); // Set the Timestamp
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); // Specify the Required Format
The answers are pretty much in the comment sections. But I have shared this answer since this is another approach in OOP fashion. You can leverage the power of PHP's DateTime Class.
PHP Official Documentation For DateTime Class Link Below:
PHP DateTime Class
You have to transform the timestamp to seconds first.
$timestamp = 1588489252657;
$dateInUnixSeconds = round($timestamp / 1000, 0);
$date = \DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat('U', (string) $dateInUnixSeconds);
echo $date->format('d.m.Y');
PS:
I recommend you to use the \DateTimeImmutable object to avoid mutability problems.
https://github.com/Chemaclass/php-best-practices/blob/master/technical-skills/immutability.md
I am looking to find the minutes between two times with php. I have followed the answers I found from other questions on Stack and researched the PHP manual. In my situation, I am getting a DATETIME that is stored in the database and comparing it to NOW. I think my issue lies with a formatting issue. I will post what I have put together.
$order_start = $obj->order_start; //getting detetime from database query
$order_start = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d h:i:s', $order_start);
$order_start= $order_start->format('Y-m-d h:i:s'); //format detetime
$now_date = date('Y-m-d h:i:s'); //get now time
$diff=date_diff($order_time,$now_date); //get difference
$diff=$diff->format("%i minutes"); //format difference
So whats going on here. The page stops working when I use this line, $diff=$diff->format("%i minutes");
I was under the impression I had to format the date from the database by using, $order_start = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d h:i:s', $order_start);.
$order_start echo's 2017-07-31 01:44:25
$now_date echo's 2017-07-31 04:43:59
Which looks like the same format but may not be?
Now I'm trying to get the difference between these times and format the result to show minutes.
Thanks for the advice in advance! If there is a better article on here let me know.
I tried
Echo Difference in Two Times
I also read this to try and figure out the formatting.
http://php.net/manual/en/dateinterval.format.php
My Order page
You may convert your dates into timestamp and get the difference, then format it accordingly. Use like this
echo date('H:i:s',(strtotime($now_date)-strtotime($order_start)));
in your case use like this
echo date('h:i:s',(strtotime("2017-07-31 01:44:25")-strtotime("2017-07-31 04:43:59")));
I am trying to get current time and date in order to echo it out on my website. I have the follow snippet:
$date_of_msg = date("Y-m-d");
$time_of_msg = time();
When I echo $time_of_msg I get 00:00:00. I have tried to edit my code based on this solution here but which this approach, when I echo the variable, I get 838:59:59. I simply want the current time to be displayed in 24 hour format.
In addition to this, I currently have the date formatted to (Y-m-d), which is great because it works. I am trying to format it so that it displays day, number, year, i.e. today is 20th Feb, so I want the date to display Feb 20, 2016. I have tried the following based on documentation (see here)
$date_of_msg = date("F j, Y")
But again, the date displays nothing. Am I missing something?
If you need the current time in the 24h format just use
$time_of_msg = date("H:i");
The date part seems correct that way, you must be doing something wrong while displaying it.
time() (unless you override it in some weird fashion) gives you a timestamp, i.e. the amount of seconds which have passed since 1970-01-01 until now. date(), however, gives you a string representation of a date, which may or may not include the minutes and seconds - depending on how you choose to format it.
So, if you want to display the time and date to a user, you should probably go for something like
$date_of_msg = date("F j, Y H:i:s")
The documentation on date() gives you an excellent description of available options.
time() returns a UNIX timestamp while date() format a timestamp. Your call date("Y-m-d") means the same as date("Y-m-d", time()).
Even though the function is called date(), it can also format time. You just have to use the correct placeholders. E.g. date("H:i:s") would give you a 24h-time like 17:43:23.
This code
<?php
echo date("Y-m-d").PHP_EOL;
echo time().PHP_EOL;
echo date("F j, Y").PHP_EOL;
Returns this result, as expected
2016-02-20
1455927480
February 20, 2016
So what are you doing that you are not actually telling us
I need to convert a specific date format into local time (Europe/Sarajevo), I have the time in this format 2013-02-17T15:00:00Z which I don't really understand and this is why I don't know how to convert it to the Europe/Sarajevo time, who knows maybe it is already Sarajevo time, I don't know...
OK I can parse it and remove the T and Z and get a time but these letters mean something, probably they affect the result time...
The result time is for example 2013-02-17 18:00:00, probably there will be a difference due to the letters T and Z which are probably time offset.
Use DateTime. It's much better for working with timezones:
$datetime = new DateTime('2013-02-17T15:00:00Z');
$datetime->setTimeZone(new DateTimeZone('Europe/Sarajevo'));
echo $datetime->format('c');
Reference
DateTime
DateTimeZone
See it in action
You can use php date function like this
$date = '2013-02-17T15:00:00Z';
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime($date));
See the Manual