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Don P
Don P

Reputation: 63587

Determining whether the current time is before 5pm that day

I want to have code in a loop that only runs if it is before 5pm on any day.

What code would do this? 

IF (current_time < 5:00pm) {
   // Do stuff
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2229

Answers (4)

dmmd
dmmd

Reputation: 3009

Simple one that gets the job done:

if (date('H') < 17)
{
    // DO SOMETHING
}

Just remember that this date comes from the server. So, if the client is in another timezone, that may not work as required. The good thing about this, is that the user can't change his computer date in order to trick the site into something.

And if you want to do that with javascript (where the value will come from the user's computer), just do the following:

var today = new Date();
if (today.getHours() < 17)
{
    // DO SOMETHING
}

Upvotes: 4

Wh1T3h4Ck5
Wh1T3h4Ck5

Reputation: 8509

In short...

$t = time(); # or any other timestamp
if (date('H', $t) < 17) {
  // Do stuff
  }

Works for any day

Note: Make sure your timezone is correct (check php config or just use date_default_timezone_set function before calling date function)

Upvotes: 0

Spudley
Spudley

Reputation: 168685

This solution uses the nice PHP5 DateTime class, and avoids the clunky old strtotime() function:

$hoursNow = new DateTime()->format('H');
if($hoursNow < 17) {
    ....
}

Upvotes: 6

Gustav Westling
Gustav Westling

Reputation: 633

if(time() < strtotime('today 05:00 pm')) {
   // Do stuff
}

Upvotes: 3

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