[php] Add 'x' number of hours to date

I currently have php returning the current date/time like so:

$now = date("Y-m-d H:m:s");

What I'd like to do is have a new variable $new_time equal $now + $hours, where $hours is a number of hours ranging from 24 to 800.

Any suggestions?

You can try lib Ouzo goodies, and do this in fluent way:

echo Clock::now()->plusHours($hours)->format("Y-m-d H:m:s");

API's allow multiple operations.

For a given DateTime, you can add days, hours, minutes, etc. Here's some examples:

$now = new \DateTime();

$now->add(new DateInterval('PT24H')); // adds 24 hours

$now->add(new DateInterval('P2D')); // adds 2 days

PHP: DateTime::add - Manual https://www.php.net/manual/fr/datetime.add.php

I use following function to convert normal date-time value to mysql datetime format.

private function ampmtosql($ampmdate) {
            if($ampmdate == '')
                return '';
            $ampm = substr(trim(($ampmdate)), -2);
            $datetimesql = substr(trim(($ampmdate)), 0, -3);
            if ($ampm == 'pm') {
                $hours = substr(trim($datetimesql), -5, 2);
                if($hours != '12')
                    $datetimesql = date('Y-m-d H:i',strtotime('+12 hour',strtotime($datetimesql)));
            }
            elseif ($ampm == 'am') {
                $hours = substr(trim($datetimesql), -5, 2);
                if($hours == '12')
                    $datetimesql = date('Y-m-d H:i',strtotime('-12 hour',strtotime($datetimesql)));
            }
            return $datetimesql;
        }

It converts datetime values like,

2015-06-04 09:55 AM -> 2015-06-04 09:55
2015-06-04 03:55 PM -> 2015-06-04 15:55
2015-06-04 12:30 AM -> 2015-06-04 00:55

Hope this will help someone.

I like those built-in php date expressions like +1 hour, but for some reason, they fall out of my head all of the time. Besides, none of the IDEs I'm aware of suggest auto-completion facility for that kind of stuff. And, finally, although juggling with those strtotime and date functions is no rocket science, I have to google their usage each time I need them.

That's why I like the solution that eliminates (at least mitigates) those issues. Here's how adding x hours to a date can look like:

(new Future(
    new DateTimeFromISO8601String('2014-11-21T06:04:31.321987+00:00'),
    new NHours($x)
))
    ->value();

As a nice bonus, you don't have to worry about formatting the resulting value, it's already is ISO8601 format.

This example uses meringue library, you can check out more examples here.

for add 2 hours to "now"

$date = new DateTime('now +2 hours');

or

$date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('+2 hours', $now)); // as above in example

or

$now = new DateTime();

$now->add(new DateInterval('PT2H')); // as above in example

You can use strtotime() to achieve this:

$new_time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('+3 hours', $now)); // $now + 3 hours

You can also use the unix style time to calculate:

$newtime = time() + ($hours * 60 * 60); // hours; 60 mins; 60secs
echo 'Now:       '. date('Y-m-d') ."\n";
echo 'Next Week: '. date('Y-m-d', $newtime) ."\n";

An other solution (object-oriented) is to use DateTime::add

Example:

$now = new DateTime(); //current date/time
$now->add(new DateInterval("PT{$hours}H"));
$new_time = $now->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

PHP documentation.

   $now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
   date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("+1 hours $now"));

Correct

You can use strtotime() to achieve this:

$new_time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('+3 hours', strtotime($now))); // $now + 3 hours

Um... your minutes should be corrected... 'i' is for minutes. Not months. :) (I had the same problem for something too.

$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$new_time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime('+3 hours', $now)); // $now + 3 hours

I use this , its working cool.

//set timezone
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');

//set an date and time to work with
$start = '2014-06-01 14:00:00';

//display the converted time
echo date('Y-m-d H:i',strtotime('+1 hour +20 minutes',strtotime($start)));

$date_to_be-added="2018-04-11 10:04:46";
$added_date=date("Y-m-d H:i:s",strtotime('+24 hours', strtotime($date_to_be)));

A combination of date() and strtotime() functions will do the trick.