adding 30 minutes to date [closed]

Question

So what I need to do is add 30 minutes to the following

date("Ymdhis"); 

I tried this

+strtotime("+30 minutes"); 

however it does not seem to like it. I wondering what the correct why to do this is.

Answer 1

Your method of using strtotime should work.

<?php  echo date("Y/m/d H:i:s", strtotime("now")) . "\n"; echo date("Y/m/d H:i:s", strtotime("+30 minutes"));  ?> 

Output

2012/03/22 10:55:45 2012/03/22 11:25:45 // 30 minutes later 

However your method of adding time probably isn't correct. The above will work to add 30 minutes to the current time. Suppose you want to add 30 minutes from a given time, $t, then use strtotime's second parameter, which is used as a base for the calculation of relative dates.

date("Y/m/d H:i:s", strtotime("+30 minutes", $t)); 

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