[php] Adding 1 hour to time variable

I have a time to which I want to add an hour:

$time = '10:09';

I've tried:

$time = strtotime('+1 hour');

strtotime('+1 hour', $time);

$time = date('H:i', strtotime('+1 hour'));

But none of the above work.

Can you guys help me out?

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The answer is


Worked for me..

$timestamp = strtotime('10:09') + 60*60;

$time = date('H:i', $timestamp);

echo $time;//11:09

Explanation:

strtotime('10:09') creates a numerical timestamp in seconds, something like 1510450372. Simply add or remove the amount of seconds you need and use date() to convert it back into a human readable format.

$timestamp = strtotime('10:09') + 60*60; // 10:09 + 1 hour
$timestamp = strtotime('10:09') + 60*60*2; // 10:09 + 2 hours
$timestamp = strtotime('10:09') - 60*60; // 10:09 - 1 hour

time() also creates a numerical timestamp but for right now. You can use it in the same way.

$timestamp = time() + 60*60; // now + 1 hour

You can use:

$time = strtotime("10:09") + 3600;
echo date('H:i', $time);

Or date_add: http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.add.php


Beware of adding 3600!! may be a problem on day change because of unix timestamp format uses moth before day.

e.g. 2012-03-02 23:33:33 would become 2014-01-13 13:00:00 by adding 3600 better use mktime and date functions they can handle this and things like adding 25 hours etc.


2020 Update

It is weird that no one has suggested the OOP way:

$date = new \DateTime(); //now
$date->add(new \DateInterval('PT3600S'));//add 3600s / 1 hour

OR

$date = new \DateTime(); //now
$date->add(new \DateInterval('PT60M'));//add 60 min / 1 hour

OR

$date = new \DateTime(); //now
$date->add(new \DateInterval('PT1H'));//add 1 hour

Extract it in string with format:

var_dump($date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

I hope it helps


You can do like this

    echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('4 minute'));
    echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('6 hour'));
    echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('2 day'));

$time = '10:09';
$timestamp = strtotime($time);
$timestamp_one_hour_later = $timestamp + 3600; // 3600 sec. = 1 hour

// Formats the timestamp to HH:MM => outputs 11:09.
echo strftime('%H:%M', $timestamp_one_hour_later);
// As crolpa suggested, you can also do
// echo date('H:i', $timestamp_one_hour_later);

Check PHP manual for strtotime(), strftime() and date() for details.

BTW, in your initial code, you need to add some quotes otherwise you will get PHP syntax errors:

$time = 10:09; // wrong syntax
$time = '10:09'; // syntax OK

$time = date(H:i, strtotime('+1 hour')); // wrong syntax
$time = date('H:i', strtotime('+1 hour')); // syntax OK

You can try this code:

$time = '10:09';

echo date( 'H:i', strtotime( '+1 hour' , strtotime($time) ) );

for this problem please follow bellow code:

$time= '10:09';
$new_time=date('H:i',strtotime($time.'+ 1 hour'));
echo $new_time;`
// now output will be: 11:09

try this it is worked for me.

$time="10:09";
$time = date('H:i', strtotime($time.'+1 hour'));
echo $time;

Simple and smart solution:

date("H:i:s", time()+3600);