Add an hour to date

[blackrain87]

Hello there,

I've been trying to work with the date function to add an hour to the current time.

Here is what I have right now:

PHP Code:

$new_time = date("m/d/y h:i a",strtotime("m/d/y h:i a + 1 hour")); 


This sorta works, but it give the date as

12/31/69 4:00 pm

It got the time of 4:00 pm correct, but it is definitely not the new years of 1969. Where did I go wrong?

[AndrewGSW]

Mmm have you looked at the docs? You are not supplying strtotime() with a valid time so it is defaulting to "" - the beginning of time!

There are plenty of examples on the docs page.

[Thyrosis]

Try this:

PHP Code:

$new_time = date("m/d/y h:i a",(time()+60*60)); 


This way you generate $new_time on the basis of the current timestamp and add the amount of seconds in an hour (60 seconds * 60 minutes).

But agreed with Andrews comment, check out the PHP documentation, possibly PHPs time() explanation.

[kbluhm]

(time()+60*60) == strtotime( '+ 1 hour' )

PHP Code:

$new_time = date( "m/d/y h:i a", strtotime( "+ 1 hour" ) ); 


[Thyrosis]

Originally Posted by kbluhm

(time()+60*60) == strtotime( '+ 1 hour' )

PHP Code:

$new_time = date( "m/d/y h:i a", strtotime( "+ 1 hour" ) ); 


That's cool, your way requires less thinking