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Tim Novis
Tim Novis

Reputation: 201

Get date of next Sunday after a certain time?

I need to return the date of the next Sunday after a certain cut-off point. For example - I'm running a competition website and the cut-off is 10PM on Sunday every week, so if a user were to look at the website after 10PM on a Sunday, it would need to display next weeks date.

At the moment I'm using this:

date('F jS', strtotime('this Sunday', strtotime(date('F jS', time()))));

Which is great, but only works past midnight, so will only display the next Sunday's date at 00:00 on Monday, when I need it at 22:00 on Sunday.

Any help is much appreciated!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2481

Answers (5)

Clinton
Clinton

Reputation: 1196

While there is a good accepted answer already for this problem, I thought it worthwhile to add the quick solution to finding the time on next Sunday at 22:00 (your original question).

The strtotime() function does the work if you add the time to the required day of the week as in:

$stamp = strtotime('Next Sunday + 22 hour');
echo date('D Y-m-d H:i:s', $stamp);

I hope that this helps someone to easily get a timestamp for a particular day and time.

Upvotes: 0

Mikey
Mikey

Reputation: 2704

Would something simple like this suffice?

$competitionDeadline = new DateTime('this sunday 10PM');

$date = new DateTime();

if ($date->format('l') === 'Sunday' && $date->format('H') >= '22') {
    // It is past 10 PM on Sunday, 
    // Override next competition dates here... i.e.

    $competitionDeadline = new DateTime('next sunday 10PM');
}

// Wherever you are presenting the competition deadline...
$competitionDeadline->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Upvotes: 4

RiggsFolly
RiggsFolly

Reputation: 94642

As your code returns a timestamp for next sunday @ 00:00:00 just add 22 hours to it, after checking if you are before it is already Sunday and before or after the cutoff time.

// work out if we what this sunday or next sunday
// based on whether we are before or after the cutoff of 22:00
$when = (date('N') == '7' && date('h') > 22) ? 'this' : 'next';

$comp_finish = strtotime("$when Sunday") + (60*60*22);
echo date('d/m/Y H:i:s', $comp_finish);

Giving 

14/02/2016 22:00:00

Also you dont need to use the second strtotime as that just generates the equivalent of now which is assumed by the first strtotime anyway

Upvotes: -1

Rogin Thomas
Rogin Thomas

Reputation: 772

Try this,

echo date('F jS', strtotime('this Sunday', time() + (2*60)));

Upvotes: 1

Bob Nocraz
Bob Nocraz

Reputation: 446

You need to check if today is a sunday and if the hour is less than 10pm first:

$next = 'next'; //default to 'next', only change if below matches:
if (date('N') == '7' && date('h') < 22) $next = 'this';

now use that variable in your strtotime:

date('F jS', strtotime("$next Sunday"));

3v4l proof of concept

Upvotes: 2

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