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Add 'x' amount of hours to date

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I currently have php get the current time/date like so:

$now = date("Y-m-d H:m:s");

What id like to do is have a new variable $new_time equal $now + $hours$hours being an amount of hours ranging anywhere from 24-800.

Any suggestions?

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You may use something like the strtotime() function to add something to the current timestamp. $new_time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('+5 hours')).

If you need variables in the function, you must use double quotes then like strtotime("+{$hours} hours"), however better you use strtotime(sprintf("+%d hours", $hours)) then.

  • answered 8 years ago
  • G John

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An other solution (object-oriented) is to use DateTime::add

Exemple :

$now = new DateTime(); //current date/time
$now->add(new DateInterval("PT{$hours}H"));
$new_time = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

PHP documentation : http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/datetime.add.php

  • answered 8 years ago
  • G John

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You can use strtotime() to achieve this:

$new_time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('+3 hours', $now)); // $now + 3 hours
  • answered 8 years ago
  • Gul Hafiz

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