Adding minutes to date time in PHP

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I m really stuck with adding X minutes to a datetime  after doing lots of google ing and PHP manual reading  I don t seem to be getting anywhere   The date time format I have is    2011-11-17 05 05  year-month-day hour minute  Minutes to add will just be a number between 0 and 59  I would like the output to be the same as the input format with the minutes added   Could someone give me a working code example  as my attempts don t seem to be getting me anywhere

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As noted by Brad and Nemoden in their answers above, strtotime() is a great function. Personally, I found the standard DateTime Object to be overly complicated for many use cases. I just wanted to add 5 minutes to the current time, for example.

I wrote a function that returns a date as a string with some optional parameters:
1.) time:String | ex: "+5 minutes" (default = current time)
2.) format:String | ex: "Y-m-d H:i:s" (default = "Y-m-d H:i:s O")

Obviously, this is not a fully featured method. Just a quick and simple function for modifying/formatting the current date.

function get_date($time=null, $format='Y-m-d H:i:s O')
{
    if(empty($time))return date($format);
    return date($format, strtotime($time));
}

// Example #1: Return current date in default format
$date = get_date(); 

// Example #2: Add 5 minutes to the current date
$date = get_date("+5 minutes"); 

// Example #3: Subtract 30 days from the current date & format as 'Y-m-d H:i:s'
$date = get_date("-30 days", "Y-m-d H:i:s");

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A bit of a late answer  but the method I would use is      Create a new  DateTime instance  date   DateTime  createFromFormat  Y-m-d H i s    2015-10-26 10 00 00        Modify the date  date- gt modify   5 minutes        Output echo  date- gt format  Y-m-d H i s      Or in PHP    5 4  echo  DateTime  createFromFormat  Y-m-d H i s    2015-10-26 10 00 00   - gt modify   5 minutes  - gt format  Y-m-d H i s

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PHP s DateTime class has a useful modify method which takes in easy-to-understand text    dateTime   new DateTime  2011-11-17 05 05     dateTime- gt modify   5 minutes      You could also use string interpolation or concatenation to parameterize it    dateTime   new DateTime  2011-11-17 05 05     minutesToAdd   5   dateTime- gt modify     minutesToAdd  minutes

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I don t know why the approach set as solution didn t work for me  So I m posting here what worked for me in hope it can help anybody    startTime   date  Y-m-d H i s       display the starting time echo   gt     startTime     lt br gt       adding 2 minutes  convertedTime   date  Y-m-d H i s   strtotime   2 minutes   strtotime  startTime        display the converted time echo   gt     convertedTime

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one line mysql datetime format   mysql date time    new DateTime   - gt modify   15 minutes  - gt format  Y-m-d H i s

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If you want to give a variable that contains the minutes   Then I think this is a great way to achieve this    minutes   10   maxAge   new DateTime  2011-11-17 05 05     maxAge- gt modify     minutes  minutes

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You can do this with native functions easily   strtotime   59 minutes   strtotime  2011-11-17 05 05       I d recommend the DateTime class method though  just posted by Tim

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I thought this would help some when dealing with time zones too  My modified solution is based off of  Tim Cooper s solution  the correct answer above    minutes to add   10   time   new DateTime       time- gt setTimezone new DateTimeZone  America Toronto        time- gt add new DateInterval  PT     minutes to add    M      timestamp    time- gt format  Y m d G i s      The bold line  line 3  is the addition  I hope this helps some folks as well

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Use strtotime   5 minute    date    Example    date    2017-06-16 08 40 00    date   strtotime  date    date   strtotime   5 minute    date   echo date  Y-m-d H i s    date

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One more example of a function to do this   changing the time and interval formats however you like them according to this for function date  and this for DateInterval     I ve also written an alternate form of the below function       Return adjusted time   function addMinutesToTime   dateTime   plusMinutes           dateTime   DateTime  createFromFormat   Y-m-d H i    dateTime         dateTime- gt add  new DateInterval   PT       integer   plusMinutes      M            newTime    dateTime- gt format   Y-m-d H i          return  newTime      adjustedTime   addMinutesToTime   2011-11-17 05 05   59     echo   lt h1 gt Adjusted Time       adjustedTime     lt  h1 gt     PHP EOL   PHP EOL

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minutes to add   5    time   new DateTime  2011-11-17 05 05     time- gt add new DateInterval  PT     minutes to add    M       stamp    time- gt format  Y-m-d H i      The ISO 8601 standard for duration is a string in the form of P y Y m1 M d DT h H m2 M s S where the     parts are replaced by a number value indicating how long the duration is   For example  P1Y2DT5S means 1 year  2 days  and 5 seconds   In the example above  we are providing PT5M  or 5 minutes  to the DateInterval constructor

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Without using a variable     yourDate- gt modify  15 minutes     echo  yourDate- gt format   Y-m-d H i      With using a variable     interval  15    yourDate- gt modify     interval   minutes       echo  yourDate- gt format   Y-m-d H i

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newtimestamp   strtotime  2011-11-17 05 05   16 minute    echo date  Y-m-d H i s    newtimestamp     result is      2011-11-17 05 21 00   Live demo is here  If you are no familiar with strtotime yet  you better head to php net to discover it s great power  -

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