mktime

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

mktime — Obtener la marca de tiempo Unix de una fecha

Descripción

mktime(
    int $hour = date("H"),
    int $minute = date("i"),
    int $second = date("s"),
    int $month = date("n"),
    int $day = date("j"),
    int $year = date("Y"),
    int $is_dst = -1
): int

Devuelve la marca de tiempo Unix correspondiente a los argumentos dados. Esta marca de tiempo es un entero que contiene el número de segundos entre la Época Unix (1 de Enero del 1970 00:00:00 GMT) y el instante especificado.

Los argumentos pueden omitirse de derecha a izquierda; cualquier argumento que se omita será establecido al valor actual según la fecha y hora locales.

Notas

Nota:
Desde PHP 5.1, cuando se hace la llamada sin argumentos, mktime() lanza un aviso de tipo E_STRICT: use la función time() en su lugar.

Parámetros

hour: El número de la hora relativa al inicio del día determinado por month, day y year. Los valores negativos referencian la hora antes de la media noche del día en cuestión. Los valores mayores que 23 referencian la hora apropiada en el/los día/s siguiente/s.
minute: El número de los minutos relativos al inicio de hour. Los valores negativos referencian el minuto en la hora previa. Los valores mayores que 59 referencian el minuto apropiado en la/s hora/s siguiente/s.
second: El número de segundos relativos al inicio de minute. Los valores negativos referencian el segundo en el minuto previo. Los valores mayores que 59 referencian el segundo apropiado en el/los minuto/s siguiente/s.
month: El número del mes relativo al final del año previo. Los valores de 1 a 12 referencian los meses del calendario normal del año en cuestión. Los valores menores que 1 (incluyendo valores negativos) referencian los meses del año previo en orden inverso, por lo que 0 es Diciembre, -1 es Noviembre, etc. Los valores mayores que 12 referencian el mes apropiado en el/los año/s siguiente/s.
day: El número del día relativo al final del mes previo. Los valores del 1 al 28, 29, 30 o 31 (dependiendo del mes) referencian los días normales del mes relevante. Los valores menores que 1 (incluyendo valores negativos) referencian los días del mes previo por lo que 0 es el último día del mes previo, -1 es el día anterior a ese, etc. Los valores mayores que el número de días del mes relevante referencian el día apropiado en el/los mes/es siguiente/s.
year: El número del año, puede ser un valor de dos o cuatro dígitos, con valores entre 0-69 mapeados a 2000-2069 y 70-100 a 1970-2000. En sistemas donde time_t es un entero con signo de 32 bits, como es lo más normal hoy en día, el rango válido para year es entre 1901 y 2038. Sin embargo, antes de PHP 5.1.0 este rango estaba limitado desde 1970 a 2038 en algunos sistemas (p.ej. Windows).
is_dst: Este parámetro se puede establecer a 1 si el instante está durante el horario de verano (DST), 0 si no, o -1 (por omisión) si no se sabe si el instante está durante el horario de verano. Si no se sabe, PHP lo intentará calcular por sí mismo. Esto puede causar resultados inesperados (pero no incorrectos). Algunas veces no son válidos si DST está habilitado en el sistema donde se ejecuta PHP o is_dst está establecido a 1. Si DST está habilitado a, p.ej. 2:00, todas las horas entre las 2:00 y las 3:00 no son válidas y mktime() devuelve un valor indefinido (normalmente negativo). Algunos sistemas (p.ej. Solaris 8) habilitan DST a la medianoche por lo que la hora 0:30 del día, cuando DST está habilitado, es evaluada como 23:30 del día anterior.

Nota:
A partir de PHP 5.1.0, este parámetro se volvió obsoleto. Como resultado, se pueden usar en su lugar las nuevas características de manejo de zonas horarias.

Nota:
Este parámetro ha sido eliminado en PHP 7.0.0.

Valores devueltos

mktime() devuelve la marca de tiempo Unix de los argumentos dados. Si los argumentos no son válidos, la función devuelve false (antes de PHP 5.1 devolvía -1).

Errores/Excepciones

Cada vez que se llame a una función de fecha/hora se generará un E_NOTICE si la zona horaria no es válida, y/o un mensaje E_STRICT o E_WARNING si se emplea la configuración del sistema o la variable global TZ. Véase también date_default_timezone_set()

Historial de cambios

Versión	Descripción
7.0.0	El parámetro `is_dst` ha sido eliminado.
5.3.0	mktime() ahora lanza un aviso de tipo `E_DEPRECATED` si se usa el parámetro `is_dst`.
5.1.0	El parámetro `is_dst` se volvió obsoleto. Hacía que la funcion devolviese `false` si se pruducía un error, en vez de `-1`. Arreglada la función para que acepte el año, mes y día pasados como cero.
5.1.0	Cuando se hace la llamada sin argumento, mktime() lanza un aviso `E_STRICT`. Use la función time() en su lugar.
5.1.0	Ahora muestra un error `E_STRICT` y `E_NOTICE` cuando ocurren errores con zonas horarias.

Ejemplos

Ejemplo #1 Ejemplo básico de mktime()

<?php
// Establecer la zona horaria predeterminada a usar. Disponible desde PHP 5.1
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

// Imprime: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));

// Imprime algo como: 2006-04-05T01:02:03+00:00
echo date('c', mktime(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2006));
?>

Ejemplo #2 Ejemplo de mktime()

mktime() es útil para hacer que las fechas sean aritméticas y válidas, ya que calculará automáticamente el valor correcto para las entradas que estén fuera de rango. Por ejemplo, cada una de las líneas siguientes producirá la cadena "Jan-01-1998".

<?php
echo date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 32, 1997));
echo date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 13, 1, 1997));
echo date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1998));
echo date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 98));
?>

Ejemplo #3 El último día del mes

El último día de cualquier mes dado se puede expresar como el día "0" del mes siguiente, no el día -1. Los dos ejemplos siguientes producirán la cadena "El último día en Feb 2000 es: 29".

<?php
$último_día = mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 2000);
echo strftime("El último día en Feb 2000 es: %d", $último_día);
$último_día = mktime(0, 0, 0, 4, -31, 2000);
echo strftime("El último día en Feb 2000 es: %d", $último_día);
?>

Notas

Precaución

Antes de PHP 5.1.0, las marcas de tiempo negativas no estaban soportadas bajo ninguna versión de Windows conocida, y tampoco en otros sistemas. Por lo tanto el rango de años válidos estaba limitado desde 1970 hasta 2038.

Ver también

checkdate() - Validar una fecha gregoriana
gmmktime() - Obtener la marca temporal de Unix para una fecha GMT
date() - Dar formato a la fecha/hora local
time() - Devuelve la fecha Unix actual

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User Contributed Notes 27 notes

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Alan ¶

16 years ago


Do remember that, counter-intuitively enough, the arguments for month and day are inversed (or middle-endian). A common mistake for Europeans seems to be to feed the date arguments in the expected order (big endian or little endian).

It's clear to see where this weird order comes from (even with the date being big endian the order for all arguments would still be mixed - it's obviously based on the American date format with the time "prefixed" to allow an easier shorthand) and why this wasn't changed (passing the values in the wrong order produces a valid, though unexpected, result in most cases), but it continues to be a source of confusion for me whenever I come back to PHP from other languages or libraries.

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Rad ¶

10 years ago


Be careful passing zeros into mktime, in most cases a zero will count as the previous unit of time. The documentation explains this yet most of the comments here still use zeroes.

For example, if you pass the year 2013 into mktime, with zeroes for everything else, the outcome is probably not what you are looking for.

<?php
echo date('F jS, Y g:i:s a', mktime(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2013)); 
// November 30th, 2012 12:00:00 am
?>

Instead of using 0's, try 1's. This makes more sense (except for minutes/seconds). Maybe not as obvious of a purpose as zeroes to other programmers, though.

<?php
echo date('F jS, Y g:i:s a', mktime(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2013));
// January 1st, 2013 1:01:01 am
?>

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joseph dot andrew dot hughes at gmail dot com ¶

16 years ago


Just a small thing to think about if you are only trying to pull the month out using mktime and date.  Make sure you place a 1 into day field.  Otherwise you will get incorrect dates when a month is followed by a month with less days when the day of the current month is higher then the max day of the month you are trying to find.. (Such as today being Jan 30th and trying to find the month Feb.)

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developers at zeros dot co dot id ¶

6 years ago


Please note, mktime requires an integer value, if you use date("H"), date("i"), date("s") as a value, which is actually have a leading zero, you may get "A non well formed numeric value encountered" notice. so you need some tricks like this

mktime( date("G"), intval(date("i")), intval(date("s"), date("n"), date("j"), date("Y") )

Since there are no minute & second without leading zero in the date function, we can use the intval() function or you can cast value type like this to force the value type.

(int) date("i")

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phper ¶

8 years ago


Please mind function is timezone dependent. Timezone independent funciton is gmmktime

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thomas_corthals at hotmail dot com ¶

16 years ago


It seems mktime() doesn't return negative timestamps on Linux systems with a version of glibc <= 2.3.3.

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MarkAgius at markagius dot co dot uk ¶

7 years ago


The following function moves all the parameters in order of most significant (biggest) to least significant (smallest) order.
Year is bigger than month. Month is bigger than day. Day bigger than hours...

Much less confusing than mktime order.

<?php
function mkTimestamp($year,$month,$day, $hours=0,$minutes=0,$seconds=0){
  // Same as mktime() but parameters are in most significant to least significant order.
  return mktime($hours,$minutes,$seconds, $month,$day,$year);
}
?>

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mh240873 at web dot de ¶

9 years ago


Pay attention that not all days have the same number of seconds (86400s) if you are using date_default_timezone_set(..) and the used timezone has Daylight Saving Time (DST) e.g. "Europe/Berlin". Under PHP 5.5.16 I get the following results:

  $shortday  = mktime(23,59,59, '3','29','2015') - mktime(0,0,0, '3','29','2015) + 1; // result: 82800s  (86400s - 3600s)
  $normalDay = mktime(23,59,59, '1', '2','2015') - mktime(0,0,0, '1', '1','2015) + 1; // result: 86400s  
  $longDay   = mktime(23,59,59,'10','25','2015') - mktime(0,0,0,'10','25','2015) + 1; // result: 90000s  (86400s + 3600s)

Pitfall is noticeable if you are running an iterative loop with a code like:
   echo date( 'd.m.Y', $day );
   $day = $day + 86400;   // 86400 = 24*3600 - frequently used in PHP code

which results in wrong date if $day reaches 2015-10-25 (end of summer time in Germany):
    24.10.2015
    25.10.2015   
    25.10.2015   // Ups! Same date twice in calendar
    27.10.2015

You may workaround this by using date_default_timezone_set('UTC') where all days have the same number of seconds.

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tom at chegg dot com ¶

14 years ago


I was using the following to get a list of month names.

for ($i=1; $i<13; $i++) {
  echo date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$i) . ",";
}

Normally this outputs -
January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,
September,October,November,December

However if today's date is the 31st you get instead:
January,March,March,May,May,July,July,August,October,
October,December,December

Why? Because Feb,Apr,June,Sept, and Nov don't have 31 days!

The fix, add the 5th parameter, don't let the day of month default to today's date:

  echo date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$i,1) . ",";

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info at microweb dot lt ¶

14 years ago


Function to generate array of dates between two dates (date range array)



<?php

function dates_range($date1, $date2)

{

   if ($date1<$date2)

   {

       $dates_range[]=$date1;

       $date1=strtotime($date1);

       $date2=strtotime($date2);

       while ($date1!=$date2)

       {

           $date1=mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m", $date1), date("d", $date1)+1, date("Y", $date1));

           $dates_range[]=date('Y-m-d', $date1);

       }

   }

   return $dates_range;

}



echo '<pre>';

print_r(dates_range('2009-12-25', '2010-01-05'));

echo '</pre>';

?>



[EDIT BY danbrown AT php DOT net: Contains a bugfix submitted by (carlosbuz2 AT gmail DOT com) on 04-MAR-2011, with the following note: The first date in array is incorrect.]

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ronnie dot kurniawan at gmail dot com ¶

15 years ago


Add (and subtract) unixtime:



<?php

function utime_add($unixtime, $hr=0, $min=0, $sec=0, $mon=0, $day=0, $yr=0) {

  $dt = localtime($unixtime, true);

  $unixnewtime = mktime(

      $dt['tm_hour']+$hr, $dt['tm_min']+$min, $dt['tm_sec']+$sec,

      $dt['tm_mon']+1+$mon, $dt['tm_mday']+$day, $dt['tm_year']+1900+$yr);

  return $unixnewtime;

}

?>

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PHPcoder at freemail dot ig3 dot net ¶

17 years ago


The maximum possible date accepted by mktime() and gmmktime() is dependent on the current location time zone.

For example, the 32-bit timestamp overflow occurs at 2038-01-19T03:14:08+0000Z.  But if you're in a UTC -0500 time zone (such as EST in North America), the maximum accepted time before overflow (for older PHP versions on Windows) is 2038-01-18T22:14:07-0500Z, regardless of whether you're passing it to mktime() or gmmktime().

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rga at merchantpal dot com ¶

17 years ago


You cannot simply subtract or add month VARs using mktime to obtain previous or next months as suggested in previous user comments (at least not with a DD > 28 anyway).

If the date is 03-31-2007, the following yeilds March as a previous month. Not what you wanted.

<?php
$dateMinusOneMonth = mktime(0, 0, 0, (3-1), 31,  2007 );
$lastmonth = date("n | F", $dateMinusOneMonth);
echo $lastmonth;    //---> 3 | March
?>

mktime correctly gives you back the 3rd of March if you subtract 1 month from March 31 (there are only 28 days in Feb 07).

If you are just looking to do month and year arithmetic using mktime, you can use general days like 1 or 28 to do stuff like this:

<?php
$d_daysinmonth = date('t', mktime(0,0,0,$myMonth,1,$myYear));     // how many days in month
$d_year = date('Y', mktime(0,0,0,$myMonth,1,$myYear));        // year
$d_isleapyear = date('L', mktime(0,0,0,$myMonth,1,$myYear));    // is YYYY a leapyear?

$d_firstdow = date('w', mktime(0,0,0,$myMonth,'1',$myYear));     // FIRST falls on what day of week (0-6)
$d_firstname = date('l', mktime(0,0,0,$myMonth,'1',$myYear));     // FIRST falls on what day of week Full Name

$d_month = date('n', mktime(0,0,0,$myMonth,28,$myYear));         // month of year (1-12)
$d_monthname = date('F', mktime(0,0,0,$myMonth,28,$myYear));         // Month Long name (July)
$d_month_previous = date('n', mktime(0,0,0,($myMonth-1),28,$myYear));         // PREVIOUS month of year (1-12)
$d_monthname_previous = date('F', mktime(0,0,0,($myMonth-1),28,$myYear));     // PREVIOUS Month Long name (July)
$d_month_next = date('n', mktime(0,0,0,($myMonth+1),28,$myYear));         // NEXT month of year (1-12)
$d_monthname_next = date('F', mktime(0,0,0,($myMonth+1),28,$myYear));         // NEXT Month Long name (July)
$d_year_previous = date('Y', mktime(0,0,0,$myMonth,28,($myYear-1)));        // PREVIOUS year
$d_year_next = date('Y', mktime(0,0,0,$myMonth,28,($myYear+1)));        // NEXT year

$d_weeksleft = (52 - $d_weekofyear);                     // how many weeks left in year
$d_daysinyear = $d_isleapyear ? 366 : 365;                // set correct days in year for leap years
$d_daysleft = ($d_daysinyear - $d_dayofyear);                // how many days left in year
?>

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A.Ross ¶

8 years ago


What's odd is that mktime doesn't seem to support every possible year number. It's common sense that 2 digit (shortened) year numbers are interpreted in the range 1970..2069

However, when padded with zeroes, no such transformation should happen (at least that is the behaviour of other date functions). Unfortunately it does (until year 100 *inclusive*):

<?php
echo date("Y-m-d",mktime(0,0,0,1,1,"0001"));
// Expected: 0001-01-01
// Result:   2001-01-01      INCORRECT

echo date("Y-m-d",mktime(0,0,0,1,1,"0100"));
// Expected: 0100-01-01
// Result:   2000-01-01      INCORRECT

echo date("Y-m-d",mktime(0,0,0,1,1,"0101"));
// Expected: 0101-01-01
// Result:   0101-01-01      Correct
?>

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Stephen ¶

17 years ago


There are several warnings here about using mktime() to determine a date difference because of daylight savings time. However, nobody seems to have mentioned the other obvious problem, which is leap years.



Leap years mean that any effort to use mktime() and time() to determine the age (positive or negative) of some timestamp in years will be flawed. There are some years that are 366 days long, therefore you cannot say that there is a set number of seconds per year.



Timestamps are good for determining *real* time, which is not the same thing as *human calendar* time. The Gregorian calendar is only an approximation of real time, which is tweaked with daylight savings time and leap years to make it conform more to humans' expectations of how time should or ought to work. Timestamps are not tweaked and therefore are the only authoritative way of recording in computers a proper order of succession of events, but they cannot be integrated with a Gregorian system unless you take both leap years and DST into account. Otherwise, you may get the wrong number of years when you are approaching a value of exactly X years.



As for PHP, you could still use timestamps as a way of determining age if you took into account not only DST but also whether or not each year is a leap year and adjusted your calculations accordingly. However, this could become messy and inefficient. 



There is an alternative approach to calculating days given the day, month and year of the dates to be compared. Compare the years first, and then compare the month and day - if the month and day have already passed (or, if you like, if they match the current month and day), then add 1 to the total for the years. 



This solution works because it stays within the Gregorian system and doesn't venture into the world of timestamps.



There is also the issue of leap seconds, but this will only arise if you literally need to get the *exact* age in seconds. In that case, of course, you would also need to verify that your timestamps are exactly correct and are not delayed by script processing time, plus you would need to determine whether your system conforms to UTC, etc. I expect this will hardly be an issue for anybody using PHP, however if you are interested there is an article on this issue on Wikipedia:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

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info at djdb dot be ¶

11 years ago


raw date to clean timestamp
 private function dateToTimestamp($date){
        $datefrom = explode(" ", $date);
        $value = array();
        if(strpos($datefrom[0], '-')){
            //print "issplit -";
            $value = explode("-", $datefrom[0]);
        }
        if(strpos($datefrom[0], '/')){
            //print "issplit /";
            $value = explode("/", $datefrom[0]);
        }
        /*if(){
            
        }*/
        if(strlen($value[2])==4){//13/12/2012
            //int mktime([hour[minute[second[month[day[year
            return mktime(0, 0, 0,$value[1],$value[0],$value[2]);
        }else{                  //2012/12/13
            //int mktime([hour[minute[second[month[day[year
            return mktime(0, 0, 0,$value[1],$value[2],$value[0]);
        }
    }

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yan ¶

16 years ago


caculate days between two date

<?php
  // end date is 2008 Oct. 11 00:00:00
  $_endDate = mktime(0,0,0,11,10,2008);
  // begin date is 2007 May 31 13:26:26
  $_beginDate = mktime(13,26,26,05,31,2007);

  $timestamp_diff= $_endDate-$_beginDate +1 ;
  // how many days between those two date
  $days_diff = $timestamp_diff/86400;

?>

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zfowler at unomaha dot edu ¶

14 years ago


Proper way to convert Excel dates into PHP-friendly timestamps using mktime():



<?php

// The date 6/30/2009 is stored as 39994 in Excel

$days = 39994;



// But you must subtract 1 to get the correct timestamp

$ts = mktime(0,0,0,1,$days-1,1900);



// So, this would then match Excel's representation:

echo date("m/d/Y",$ts);

?>



Excel uses "number of days since Jan. 1, 1900" to store its dates.  It also treats 1900 as a leap year when it wasn't, thus there is an extra day which must be accounted for in PHP (and the rest of the world).  Subtracting 1 from Excel's number will fix this problem.

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cebleo at n-trance dot net ¶

15 years ago


to ADD or SUBSTRACT times NOTE that if you dont specify the UTC zone your result is the difference +- your server UTC delay.



if you are ina utc/GMT +1



<?php

$hours_diff = strtotime("20:00:00")-strtotime("19:00:00");

echo  date('h:i', $hours_diff)." Hours";

?>



it shows: 02:00 Hours



but if you use a default UTC time:



<?php

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

$hours_diff = strtotime("20:00:00")-strtotime("19:00:00");

echo "<br>". date('h:i', $hours_diff);

?>



it shows: 01:00 Hours.

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rlz ¶

17 years ago


Finding out the number of days in a given month and year, accounting for leap years when February has more than 28 days.



<?php

function days_in_month($year, $month) {

    return( date( "t", mktime( 0, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year) ) );

}

?>



Hope it helps a soul out there.

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ooogla at hotmail dot com ¶

16 years ago


If you want to increment the day based on a variable when using a loop you can use this when you submit a form

1. Establish a start date and end date in two different variables

2. Get the number of days between a date

$ndays = (strtotime($_POST['edate']) - strtotime($_POST['sdate'])) / (60 * 60 * 24);

Then here is the string you slip in your loop

$nextday  = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m", strtotime($_POST['sdate']))  , date("d", strtotime($_POST['sdate']))+ $count, date("Y", strtotime($_POST['sdate']))));

$count is incremented by the loop.

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mogster at redesign dot no ¶

10 years ago


Just a simple function to return mktime from a db (mysql) datetime (Y-m-d H:i:s):

function retMktimest($dbdate) {
  return mktime(substr($dbdate, 11, 2), substr($dbdate, 14, 2), substr($dbdate, 17, 2), substr($dbdate, 5, 2), substr($dbdate, 8, 2), substr($dbdate, 0, 4));
}

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utilmind ¶

7 years ago


// here is the function which returns the Unix timestamp of last date of quarter, by  quarter number:
function last_day_of_quarter($q) {
  return mktime(0, 0, 0, floor($q*3), $q == 1 || $q == 4 ? 31 : 30);
}

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Jacob Santos ¶

12 years ago


Please note that incrementing a date using mktime in a loop is not proper. You could do it, except that there is a far better method found in the DateTime PHP class. Look at the documentation for DateTime::modify, DateTime::add (when supported) and DateTime::sub (when supported).

Also, adding seconds to a time is, well it isn't as easy as it seems, "Hey I'll just add 3600 seconds or 86400 seconds or x seconds!". The phrase once bitten, twice shy is quite applicable with the usage of adding seconds. If you ever had to 'fix' a time by calculating midnight to add the correct number of seconds, then you are doing it wrong. 

Luckily, knowing is not a requirement, because DateTime and friends exists, removing the complexity for you.

So if given a choice of

mktime($seconds, $minutes, $hours+1);

and

$datetime->modify('+1 hour');

or

$datetime->add('P1H');

I'll go with the second choice, but probably not the third, unless I was using DateInterval::createFromDateString, so that other developers knew my intent.

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mktime_php at mailinator dot com ¶

8 years ago


One practical and useful example of using negative values in mktime is the following:

<?php
//Considering today's date
echo date('Y-m-d'); //Prints: 2016-03-22
echo date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")-42, date("Y"))); //Prints: 2016-02-09
?>

By using date outputs inside mktime and adding or subtracting from them may be simpler than using other methods (string concatenations or timestamp values) and less prone to human calculations' errors.

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ionut dot bodea at eydos dot ro ¶

16 years ago


Here is what I use to calculate age. It took me 30 minutes to write and it's quite accurate. What it has special is that it's calculating the number of days a year has (float number), by testing if a year is a leap one or not. This number is used to compute the age.



<?php

function get_age($date_start, $date_end) {

    $t_lived = get_timestamp($date_end) - get_timestamp($date_start);

    $seconds_one_year = get_days_per_year($date_start, $date_end) * 24 * 60 * 60;

    $age = array();

    $age['years_exact'] = $t_lived / $seconds_one_year;

    $age['years'] = floor($t_lived / $seconds_one_year);

    $seconds_remaining = $t_lived % $seconds_one_year;

    $age['days'] = round($seconds_remaining / (24 * 60 * 60));

    return $age;

}

function get_timestamp($date) {

    list($y, $m, $d) = explode('-', $date);

    return mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, $d, $y);

}

function get_days_per_year($date_start, $date_end) {

    list($y1) = explode('-', $date_start);

    list($y2) = explode('-', $date_end);

    $years_days = array();

    for($y = $y1; $y <= $y2; $y++) {

        $years_days[] = date('L', mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, $y)) ? 366 : 365;

    }

    return round(array_sum($years_days) / count($years_days), 2);

}



$date_birth = '1979-10-12';

$date_now = date('Y-m-d');



$age = get_age($date_birth, $date_now);

echo '<pre>';

print_r($age);

echo '</pre>';

?>





It will display something like this:

Array

(

    [years_exact] => 28.972974329491

    [years] => 28

    [days] => 355

)

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delfino dot salinas at gmail dot com ¶

10 years ago


this function returns the number of days of a provided month and year, it consider the actual rules for leap years 

(if the year is multiple of 4 which is not a multiple of 100 unless multiple of thousand then is a leap)
Regards, hope this function solves any issue :)

function daysinmonth($month,$year) {
$dim = 0;
switch ($month) {
    case 1:
    case 3:
    case 5:
    case 7:
    case 8:
    case 10:
    case 12:
        $dim=31;
        break;
    case 4:
    case 6:
    case 9:
    case 11:
        $dim=30;
        break;
    case 2:
        if($year%4==0) {
            if($year%100==0) {
                if($year%1000==0) { $dim=29; } else { $dim=28; }
            } else {
                $dim=29;
            }
        } else {$dim=28;}
        break;
    }
    return($dim); 
}

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