How to add 4 hours to time in PHP/MySQL
I'm working on a blog migration from a custom built blog to Wordpress. One of the fields that Wordpress is looking for in the database is a date/time stamp set to GMT, which is 4 hours ahead of our time. So I basically need to take our date/time stamp (in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format), and add four hours to it. I was looking at the MySQL command "ADDTIME", but I think that only works on selects, not on inserts.
I had worked up a script that exploded the date in to parts, and added 4 hours to the time, but the ensuing logic that would be required to check for when 4 hours pushes in to the next day/month/year seemed a little excessive.
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What about:
date( "Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime( "2009-08-09 23:44:22" )+4*60*60 )
or even
date( "Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime( "2009-08-09 23:44:22 + 4 hours" ) )
Might need a bit of error checking, but should solve your problem.
- answered 8 years ago
- Gul Hafiz
I have used this method:
$format = Y-m-d; //you can use any format if you want
$date = $row['date']; // from mysql_fetch_array
$date2 = date($format, strtotime("$date + 4 week"));
echo $date;
- answered 8 years ago
- G John
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