PHP: formatting current date & time as: 2006-04-12 13:47:36 and substract 15 minutes
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<?php
//Right now date and time. Format: 2008-11-13 3:12:33
echo '<b>Date and Time when this page was fetched from server:</b><br>'.date("Y-n-j G:i:s");
//15 minutes ago date and time: Format:2008-11-13 2:57:33
$past_time = date('Y-n-j G:i:s', mktime(date('G'),date('i')-15,date('s'), date('m'), date('d'), date('Y')));
echo '<br><br><b>The Date and Time 15 minutes before this page was fetched from server is:</b><br>'.$past_time;
?>
Distribution: Debian /Jessie/Stretch/Sid, Linux Mint DE
Posts: 5,195
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I have been writing a fairly large PHP application all about date and time, time intervals, schedules and whatnot. I can advise you to convert the time to timestamp as soon as it enters your program, do your arithmetic, and only for presentation purposes convert it back to date-time. Really, almost operations are easier done in timestamps.
You should also consider to write your entire program using UTC, system clock UTC, and at the very last moment, just before presentation convert it to UTC.
My company HQ is based in Europe UTC+1 and subject to daylight saving, I am located in UTC-4, no daylight saving. We transfer schedules regularly, and we have major schedule change in the night changing from summer to wintertime or vice versa. I can tell you, better use UTC.
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