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mediafreakch
mediafreakch

Reputation: 1405

date() returns inconsistent time

I have the following PHP code on my local apache2 webserver on a Mac Book Pro using PHP 5.3.8 and Default timezone set to Europe/Zurich:

$now = time();
$in5min = $now + 300;

echo "now: " . date('H:m:s', $now);
echo "<br>in 5 min: " . date('H:m:s', $in5min);

echo "<br>now using date only: " . date('H:m:s');

Result looks like this (run at 18:16:12, 26 July 2012):

now: 18:07:01  
in 5 min: 18:07:01  
now using date only: 18:07:01

Note that I can refresh the page - the seconds change, the hours and minutes remain. So 5 minutes later it's still 18:07.

What's wrong with my webserver settings? And why does the time calculation not work?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 176

Answers (3)

mediafreakch
mediafreakch

Reputation: 1405

Haha could hit me in the face: date('H:m:s') is totally wrong. "m" is for month, not minutes. Use date('H:i:s') instead

Upvotes: 0

Robert
Robert

Reputation: 8767

You're using the wrong interval, but I would suggest using DateTime::add instead:

<?php
$date = date_create('2000-01-01');
date_add($date, date_interval_create_from_date_string('10 days'));
echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d');
?>

Upvotes: 0

nickb
nickb

Reputation: 59699

The correct format string is i for minutes, not m. m is for months.

date('H:i:s');

Upvotes: 12

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