Date minus 1 year? - php

Question

I've got a date in this format:
2009-01-01
How do I return the same date but 1 year earlier?

Answer 1

You can use strtotime:
$date = strtotime('2010-01-01 -1 year');
The strtotime function returns a unix timestamp, to get a formatted string you can use date:
echo date('Y-m-d', $date); // echoes '2009-01-01'

Answer 2

Use strtotime() function:
$time = strtotime("-1 year", time());
$date = date("Y-m-d", $time);

Answer 3

Using the DateTime object...
$time = new DateTime('2099-01-01');
$newtime = $time->modify('-1 year')->format('Y-m-d');
Or using now for today
$time = new DateTime('now');
$newtime = $time->modify('-1 year')->format('Y-m-d');

Answer 4

an easiest way which i used and worked well
date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 year'));
this worked perfect.. hope this will help someone else too.. :)

Answer 5

On my website, to check if registering people is 18 years old, I simply used the following :
$legalAge = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-18 year'));
After, only compare the the two dates.
Hope it could help someone.

Answer 6

// set your date here
$mydate = "2009-01-01";
/* strtotime accepts two parameters.
The first parameter tells what it should compute.
The second parameter defines what source date it should use. */
$lastyear = strtotime("-1 year", strtotime($mydate));
// format and display the computed date
echo date("Y-m-d", $lastyear);

Answer 7

Although there are many acceptable answers in response to this question, I don't see any examples of the sub method using the \Datetime object: https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.sub.php
So, for reference, you can also use a \DateInterval to modify a \Datetime object:
$date = new \DateTime('2009-01-01');
$date->sub(new \DateInterval('P1Y'));
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
Which returns:
2008-01-01
For more information about \DateInterval, refer to the documentation: https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.dateinterval.php

Answer 8

You can use the following function to subtract 1 or any years from a date.
function yearstodate($years) {
$now = date("Y-m-d");
$now = explode('-', $now);
$year = $now[0];
$month = $now[1];
$day = $now[2];
$converted_year = $year - $years;
echo $now = $converted_year."-".$month."-".$day;
}
$number_to_subtract = "1";
echo yearstodate($number_to_subtract);
And looking at above examples you can also use the following
$user_age_min = "-"."1";
echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime($user_age_min.'year'));