Tag Archives: Time

DateTime::setTimestamp

It sets the date and time based on an Unix timestamp .
Example

<?php
$date = new DateTime();
echo $date->format(‘U = Y-m-d H:i:s’) . “<br />”;

$date->setTimestamp(1181503727);
echo $date->format(‘U = Y-m-d H:i:s’) ;
?>

Output

1335329861 = 2012-04-25 10:27:41
1181503727 = 2007-06-11 00:58:47

date_timestamp_set

Its an alias of DateTime::setTimestamp() and sets the date and time based on an Unix timestamp .
Example

<?php
$date1 = date_create();
echo date_format($date1, ‘U = Y-m-d H:i:s’).”<br />”;

date_timestamp_set($date1, 1171502325);
echo date_format($date1, ‘U = Y-m-d H:i:s’);
?>

Output

1335329740 = 2012-04-25 10:25:40
1171502325 = 2007-02-15 06:48:45

DateTime::sub

It subtracts an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds from a DateTime object
Example

<?php
$date = new DateTime(‘2012-05-17’);
$date->sub(new DateInterval(‘P11D’));
echo $date->format(‘Y-m-d’) . “n”;
?>

Output

2012-05-06

Date functions