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dave
dave

Reputation: 7867

How can I check if the current date/time is past a set date/time?

I'm trying to write a script that will check if the current date/time is past the 05/15/2010 at 4PM

How can I use PHP's date() function to perform this check?

Upvotes: 129

Views: 246223

Answers (4)

Salman Arshad
Salman Arshad

Reputation: 272386

You can use the DateTime class as such:

if (new DateTime() > new DateTime("2010-05-15 16:00:00")) {
    # current time is greater than 2010-05-15 16:00:00
    # in other words, 2010-05-15 16:00:00 has passed
}

The string passed to the DateTime constructor is parsed according to these rules.

Upvotes: 250

Rakesh Kumar Pradhan
Rakesh Kumar Pradhan

Reputation: 31

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');

$curDateTime = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$myDate = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("2018-06-26 16:15:33"));
if($myDate < $curDateTime){
    echo "active";exit;
}else{
    echo "inactive";exit;
}

Upvotes: 1

VolkerK
VolkerK

Reputation: 96169

There's also the DateTime class which implements a function for comparison operators.

// $now = new DateTime();
$dtA = new DateTime('05/14/2010 3:00PM');
$dtB = new DateTime('05/14/2010 4:00PM');

if ( $dtA > $dtB ) {
  echo 'dtA > dtB';
}
else {
  echo 'dtA <= dtB';
}

Upvotes: 80

Select0r
Select0r

Reputation: 12668

Check PHP's strtotime-function to convert your set date/time to a timestamp: http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

If strtotime can't handle your date/time format correctly ("4:00PM" will probably work but not "at 4PM"), you'll need to use string-functions, e.g. substr to parse/correct your format and retrieve your timestamp through another function, e.g. mktime.

Then compare the resulting timestamp with the current date/time (if ($calulated_timestamp > time()) { /* date in the future */ }) to see whether the set date/time is in the past or the future.

I suggest to read the PHP-doc on date/time-functions and get back here with some of your source-code once you get stuck.

Upvotes: 6

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