PHP strtotime() function

Complete PHP Date Reference

Definition and Usage

The strtotime() function parses an English textual date or time into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).

Syntax

strtotime(time,now)

Tips and Notes

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.

Note: In PHP 5.1.0 this function returns false on failure (earlier versions returns -1).

Example

<?php
echo(strtotime("now") . "<br />");
echo(strtotime("3 October 2005") . "<br />");
echo(strtotime("+5 hours") . "<br />");
echo(strtotime("+1 week") . "<br />");
echo(strtotime("+1 week 3 days 7 hours 5 seconds") . "<br />");
echo(strtotime("next Monday") . "<br />");
echo(strtotime("last Sunday"));
?>

The output of the code above could be:

1138614504
1128290400
1138632504
1139219304
1139503709
1139180400
1138489200

Complete PHP Date Reference

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