I have the following date format in a xml sheet:
Jan 30
and I want to display as:
2011-01-30
2011 being the current year
Can someone help me with that?
strtotime will use the current year if none is specified, so this would work
$t=strtotime("Jan 30");
echo strftime("%Y-%m-%d", $t);
strtotime + date gives you:
echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime('30 Jan')); //echoes '2011-01-30'
care to post the xml?
in anycase, take the string
$x = "Jan 30"
add 2011
$x = $x . ' ' . date('Y');
convert it to date time and format it
$y = date_format('Y-m-d', strtotime($x));
echo $y;`
strtotime is your key here, it converts most any date format into seconds since the epoch, then all you need do is use the date_format function
ps... if you like my answer, accept it as the answer to bring your accepted question ratio, otherwise people will be less likely to answer your questions
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I have a PHP date in a database, for example 8th August 2011. I have this date in a strtotime() format so I can display it as I please.
I need to adjust this date to make it 8th August 2013 (current year). What is the best way of doing this? So far, I've been racking my brains but to no avail.
Some of the answers you have so far have missed the point that you want to update any given date to the current year and have concentrated on turning 2011 into 2013, excluding the accepted answer. However, I feel that examples using the DateTime classes are always of use in these cases.
The accepted answer will result in a Notice:-
Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered......
if your supplied date is the 29th February on a Leapyear, although it should still give the correct result.
Here is a generic function that will take any valid date and return the same date in the current year:-
/**
* #param String $dateString
* #return DateTime
*/
function updateDate($dateString){
$suppliedDate = new \DateTime($dateString);
$currentYear = (int)(new \DateTime())->format('Y');
return (new \DateTime())->setDate($currentYear, (int)$suppliedDate->format('m'), (int)$suppliedDate->format('d'));
}
For example:-
var_dump(updateDate('8th August 2011'));
See it working here and see the PHP manual for more information on the DateTime classes.
You don't say how you want to use the updated date, but DateTime is flexible enough to allow you to do with it as you wish. I would draw your attention to the DateTime::format() method as being particularly useful.
strtotime( date( 'd M ', $originaleDate ) . date( 'Y' ) );
This takes the day and month of the original time, adds the current year, and converts it to the new date.
You can also add the amount of seconds you want to add to the original timestamp. For 2 years this would be 63 113 852 seconds.
You could retrieve the timestamp of the same date two years later with strtotime() first parameter and then convert it in the format you want to display.
<?php
$date = "11/08/2011";
$time = strtotime($date);
$time_future = strtotime("+2 years", $time);
$future = date("d/m/Y", $time_future);
echo "NEW DATE : " . $future;
?>
You can for instance output it like this:
date('2013-m-d', strtotime($myTime))
Just like that... or use
$year = date('Y');
$myMonthDay = date('m-d', strtotime($myTime));
echo $year . '-' . $myMonthDay;
Use the date modify function Like this
$date = new DateTime('2011-08-08');
$date->modify('+2 years');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . "\n";
//will give "2013-08-08"
I have data coming from the database in a 2 digit year format 13 I am looking to convert this to 2013 I tried the following code below...
$result = '13';
$year = date("Y", strtotime($result));
But it returned 1969
How can I fix this?
$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat('y', '13');
echo $dt->format('Y'); // output: 2013
69 will result in 2069. 70 will result in 1970. If you're ok with such a rule then leave as is, otherwise, prepend your own century data according to your own rule.
One important piece of information you haven't included is: how do you think a 2-digit year should be converted to a 4-digit year?
For example, I'm guessing you believe 01/01/13 is in 2013. What about 01/01/23? Is that 2023? Or 1923? Or even 1623?
Most implementations will choose a 100-year period and assume the 2-digits refer to a year within that period.
Simplest example: year is in range 2000-2099.
// $shortyear is guaranteed to be in range 00-99
$year = 2000 + $shortyear;
What if we want a different range?
$baseyear = 1963; // range is 1963-2062
// this is, of course, years of Doctor Who!
$shortyear = 81;
$year = 100 + $baseyear + ($shortyear - $baseyear) % 100;
Try it out. This uses the modulo function (the bit with %) to calculate the offset from your base year.
$result = '13';
$year = '20'.$result;
if($year > date('Y')) {
$year = $year - 100;
}
//80 will be changed to 1980
//12 -> 2012
Use the DateTime class, especially DateTime::createFromFormat(), for this:
$result = '13';
// parsing the year as year in YY format
$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat('y', $result);
// echo it in YYYY format
echo $dt->format('Y');
The issue is with strtotime. Try the same thing with strtotime("now").
Simply prepend (add to the front) the string "20" manually:
$result = '13';
$year = "20".$result;
echo $year; //returns 2013
This might be dumbest, but a quick fix would be:
$result = '13';
$result = '1/1/20' . $result;
$year = date("Y", strtotime($result)); // Returns 2013
Or you can use something like this:
date_create_from_format('y', $result);
You can create a date object given a format with date_create_from_format()
http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php
$year = date_create_from_format('y', $result);
echo $year->format('Y')
I'm just a newbie hack and I know this code is quite long. I stumbled across your question when I was looking for a solution to my problem. I'm entering data into an HTML form (too lazy to type the 4 digit year) and then writing to a DB and I (for reasons I won't bore you with) want to store the date in a 4 digit year format. Just the reverse of your issue.
The form returns $date (I know I shouldn't use that word but I did) as 01/01/01. I determine the current year ($yn) and compare it. No matter what year entered is if the date is this century it will become 20XX. But if it's less than 100 (this century) like 89 it will come out 1989. And it will continue to work in the future as the year changes. Always good for 100 years. Hope this helps you.
// break $date into two strings
$datebegin = substr($date, 0,6);
$dateend = substr($date, 6,2);
// get last two digits of current year
$yn=date("y");
// determine century
if ($dateend > $yn && $dateend < 100)
{
$year2=19;
}
elseif ($dateend <= $yn)
{
$year2=20;
}
// bring both strings back into one
$date = $datebegin . $year2 . $dateend;
I had similar issues importing excel (CSV) DOB fields, with antiquated n.american style date format with 2 digit year. I needed to write proper yyyy-mm-dd to the db. while not perfect, this is what I did:
//$col contains the old date stamp with 2 digit year such as 2/10/66 or 5/18/00
$yr = \DateTime::createFromFormat('m/d/y', $col)->format('Y');
if ($yr > date('Y')) $yr = $yr - 100;
$md = \DateTime::createFromFormat('m/d/y', $col)->format('m-d');
$col = $yr . "-" . $md;
//$col now contains a new date stamp, 1966-2-10, or 2000-5-18 resp.
If you are certain the year is always 20 something then the first answer works, otherwise, there is really no way to do what is being asked period. You have no idea if the year is past, current or future century.
Granted, there is not enough information in the question to determine if these dates are always <= now, but even then, you would not know if 01 was 1901 or 2001. Its just not possible.
None of us will live past 2099, so you can effectively use this piece of code for 77 years.
This will print 19-10-2022 instead of 19-10-22.
$date1 = date('d-m-20y h:i:s');
I am passing a date in a URL in a UK format as per the following:
http://www.website.com/index.php?from_date=01/04/2013&to_date=12/04/2013
The date range is 1st April 2013 to 12th April 2013.
Then I am using the following PHP to convert it to the YYYY-MM-DD format.
<?php
$rpt_from_date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($_GET["from_date"]) );
$rpt_to_date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($_GET["to_date"]) );
echo $rpt_from_date;
echo "</br>";
echo $rpt_to_date;
?>
For some reason this is not working. The above returns the following:
2013-01-04
2013-12-04
It's switching the month and day around. I want it to return:
2013-04-01
2013-04-12
Does anyone have any ideas?
Use DateTime object, to get php understand in which format you passing date to it.
$rpt_from_date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $_GET["from_date"]);
echo $rpt_from_date->format('Y-m-d');
PHP is reading your time string in the US format (MM/DD/YYYY) because you are using slashes. You could use dashes to give the time: index.php?from_date=01-04-2013&to_date=12-04-2013, or convert it yourself:
$uktime = implode("-", explode("/", $_GET['from_date']));
I will provide the solution but it is not using the date function:
$arr = explode("/",$_GET["from_date"]);
$from_date = $arr[2]."-".$arr[1]."-"$arr[0];
Second solution is as following:
$from_date = implode(array_reverse(explode("/",$_GET["from_date"])));
I need to create functions in PHP that let me step up/down given datetime units. Specifically, I need to be able to move to the next/previous month from the current one.
I thought I could do this using DateTime::add/sub(P1M). However, when trying to get the previous month, it messes up if the date value = 31- looks like it's actually trying to count back 30 days instead of decrementing the month value!:
$prevMonth = new DateTime('2010-12-31');
Try to decrement the month:
$prevMonth->sub(new DateInterval('P1M')); // = '2010-12-01'
$prevMonth->add(DateInterval::createFromDateString('-1 month')); // = '2010-12-01'
$prevMonth->sub(DateInterval::createFromDateString('+1 month')); // = '2010-12-01'
$prevMonth->add(DateInterval::createFromDateString('previous month')); // = '2010-12-01'
This certainly seems like the wrong behavior. Anyone have any insight?
Thanks-
NOTE: PHP version 5.3.3
(Credit actually belongs to Alex for pointing this out in the comments)
The problem is not a PHP one but a GNU one, as outlined here:
Relative items in date strings
The key here is differentiating between the concept of 'this date last month', which, because months are 'fuzzy units' with different numbers of dates, is impossible to define for a date like Dec 31 (because Nov 31 doesn't exist), and the concept of 'last month, irrespective of date'.
If all we're interested in is the previous month, the only way to gaurantee a proper DateInterval calculation is to reset the date value to the 1st, or some other number that every month will have.
What really strikes me is how undocumented this issue is, in PHP and elsewhere- considering how much date-dependent software it's probably affecting.
Here's a safe way to handle it:
/*
Handles month/year increment calculations in a safe way,
avoiding the pitfall of 'fuzzy' month units.
Returns a DateTime object with incremented month/year values, and a date value == 1.
*/
function incrementDate($startDate, $monthIncrement = 0, $yearIncrement = 0) {
$startingTimeStamp = $startDate->getTimestamp();
// Get the month value of the given date:
$monthString = date('Y-m', $startingTimeStamp);
// Create a date string corresponding to the 1st of the give month,
// making it safe for monthly/yearly calculations:
$safeDateString = "first day of $monthString";
// Increment date by given month/year increments:
$incrementedDateString = "$safeDateString $monthIncrement month $yearIncrement year";
$newTimeStamp = strtotime($incrementedDateString);
$newDate = DateTime::createFromFormat('U', $newTimeStamp);
return $newDate;
}
Easiest way to achieve this in my opinion is using mktime.
Like this:
$date = mktime(0,0,0,date('m')-1,date('d'),date('Y'));
echo date('d-m-Y', $date);
Greetz Michael
p.s mktime documentation can be found here: http://nl2.php.net/mktime
You could go old school on it and just use the date and strtotime functions.
$date = '2010-12-31';
$monthOnly = date('Y-m', strtotime($date));
$previousMonth = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($monthOnly . ' -1 month'));
(This maybe should be a comment but it's to long for one)
Here is how it works on windows 7 Apache 2.2.15 with PHP 5.3.3:
<?php $dt = new DateTime('2010-12-31');
$dt->sub(new DateInterval('P1M'));
print $dt->format('Y-m-d').'<br>';
$dt->add(DateInterval::createFromDateString('-1 month'));
print $dt->format('Y-m-d').'<br>';
$dt->sub(DateInterval::createFromDateString('+1 month'));
print $dt->format('Y-m-d').'<br>';
$dt->add(DateInterval::createFromDateString('previous month'));
print $dt->format('Y-m-d').'<br>'; ?>
2010-12-01
2010-11-01
2010-10-01
2010-09-01
So this does seem to confirm it's related to the GNU above.
Note: IMO the code below works as expected.
$dt->sub(new DateInterval('P1M'));
Current month: 12
Last month: 11
Number of Days in 12th month: 31
Number of Days in 11th month: 30
Dec 31st - 31 days = Nov 31st
Nov 31st = Nov 1 + 31 Days = 1st of Dec (30+1)
I want to be able to figure out the month of the current date variable. I'm ex vb.net and the way to do it there is just date.Month. How do I do this in PHP?
Thanks,
Jonesy
I used date_format($date, "m"); //01, 02..12
This is what I wanted, question now is how do I compare this to an int since $monthnumber = 01 just becomes 1
See http://php.net/date
date('m') or date('n') or date('F') ...
Update
m Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros 01 through 12
n Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros 1 through 12
F Alphabetic representation of a month January through December
....see the docs link for even more options.
What does your "data variable" look like? If it's like this:
$mydate = "2010-05-12 13:57:01";
You can simply do:
$month = date("m",strtotime($mydate));
For more information, take a look at date and strtotime.
EDIT:
To compare with an int, just do a date_format($date,"n"); which will give you the month without leading zero.
Alternatively, try one of these:
if((int)$month == 1)...
if(abs($month) == 1)...
Or something weird using ltrim, round, floor... but date_format() with "n" would be the best.
$unixtime = strtotime($test);
echo date('m', $unixtime); //month
echo date('d', $unixtime);
echo date('y', $unixtime );
as date_format uses the same format as date ( http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php ) the "Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros" is a lowercase n .. so
echo date('n'); // "9"
As it's not specified if you mean the system's current date or the date held in a variable, I'll answer for latter with an example.
<?php
$dateAsString = "Wed, 11 Apr 2018 19:00:00 -0500";
// This converts it to a unix timestamp so that the date() function can work with it.
$dateAsUnixTimestamp = strtotime($dateAsString);
// Output it month is various formats according to http://php.net/date
echo date('M',$dateAsUnixTimestamp);
// Will output Apr
echo date('n',$dateAsUnixTimestamp);
// Will output 4
echo date('m',$dateAsUnixTimestamp);
// Will output 04
?>
To compare with an int do this:
<?php
$date = date("m");
$dateToCompareTo = 05;
if (strval($date) == strval($dateToCompareTo)) {
echo "They are the same";
}
?>