i want to have a date 6 years from now?
how do i do that?
<?php
$timestamp = strtotime('+6 years');
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $timestamp);
?>
strtotime('+6 years');
you can pass that timestamp into something like strftime(); strtotime
Still laughing about ChaosPandion's comment :)
echo strtotime ("+6 years");
should do the trick.
189302400 is the number of seconds in 6 years.
Get the current timestamp, then add 189302400, and then convert the timestamp to a date string.
Your description isn't very precise, but echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+6 years")); might be what you need ...
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); //required if not set
$date = new DateTime('1/1/1981');
$date->modify('+60 year');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
Above is not affected by unix time stamp date range (before 1970 and after 2038).
Also you can directly compare dates with Comparison operators directly, no need convert them to Time stamp.
Requires PHP 5.3