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I am trying to create a select list starting from the current date of the user. I want it so that it is set to midnight in unix timestamp format.
This is all I'm doing:
$today = strtotime('today');
echo $today;
This is my result:
1333144800
which is: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:00:00 GMT according to Epoch Converter (incorrect by a couple hours.)
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If the date string isn't understood by strtotime() then it will return false. When this happens you can try a few things to force strtotime() to parse the date correctly. Sometimes it's something as simple as swapping the slashes for dashes, which forces strtotime() to parse the date in a different way.
The strtotime() function parses an English textual datetime into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT). Note: If the year is specified in a two-digit format, values between 0-69 are mapped to 2000-2069 and values between 70-100 are mapped to 1970-2000.
Code for converting a string to dateTime$date = strtotime ( $input ); echo date ( 'd/M/Y h:i:s' , $date );
If you want strtotime() to return a timestamp relative to UTC (00:00:00 UTC instead of e.g. 00:00:00 UTC+2, if your system is set to a timezone with an offset of 2 hours against UTC/GMT), you need to specify that:
$today = strtotime('today UTC');
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