Crazy issue with time()

[ballhogjoni]

I can't figure this one out. My is : strtotime(2009-01-29 12:44:12) - time(); and I keep getting random numbers. I get like 539, 408, 670,324, etc...

 

I diagnosed it to the time() it keeps returns random seconds.

 

Any ideas why this is happening?

[dennismonsewicz]

try looking at this

 

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

[printf]

time(); // returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970 (Uinx Epoch), it always changes!

[ballhogjoni]

time(); // returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970 (Uinx Epoch), it always changes!

 

LOL good point. I guess I should have explained myself a little better. I am taking the value of this (strtotime(2009-01-29 12:44:12) - time() equation and creating a countdown from the value. this will give the seconds I need to create that countdown. The problem is that if I refresh the page it will give me a random number of seconds (not what i'm expecting). Lets say the equation gave me 600 seconds the first time I go to the page and then I refresh the page one second later and I get 300 seconds as a value from the equation. You see the problem is that the equation is giving a random number of seconds. I was able to pinpoint the issue to the time().

[redarrow]

little example for you.

<?php
//1 month

$Time=strtotime("2009-01-29 12:44:12 -1 MONTH");

echo" ".date("M/d/y,h:i:s",$Time)." <br>";

// 1 week.

$Time=strtotime("2009-01-29 12:44:12 -1 WEEK");

echo" ".date("M/d/y,h:i:s",$Time)."<br> ";

// 1 year.

$Time=strtotime("2009-01-29 12:44:12 -1 YEAR");

echo" ".date("M/d/y,h:i:s",$Time)."<br> ";

// 1 week 1 day.

$Time=strtotime("2009-01-29 12:44:12 -1 WEEK 1 DAY");

echo" ".date("M/d/y,h:i:s",$Time)."<br> ";

// 1 week 1 day= 3 hours 2 secounds

$Time=strtotime("2009-01-29 12:44:12 -2 WEEK 1 DAY 3 HOURS 2 SECONDS");

echo" ".date("M/d/y,h:i:s",$Time)."<br> ";

?>

 

what is it your trying to do please, so we no.

[ballhogjoni]

Why does time() give you a random number (not incremental) when you refresh the page. I thought it was supposed to give the number of seconds since 1970.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

It should be displaying an increasing number approximately in the ball park of 123326xxxx, depending on what your local server's time is. Either your php installation is having a problem, or your server's time is being dynamically changed or your code that is using the result of the time() value has a bug in it.

[ballhogjoni]

What if I jsut use date("U")

[DarkWater]

Umm, I hope you have quotation marks around the date/time in this:

strtotime(2009-01-29 12:44:12) - time()

 

You do, right?

[ballhogjoni]

Umm, I hope you have quotation marks around the date/time in this:

strtotime(2009-01-29 12:44:12) - time()

 

You do, right?

 

no, its actually a variable. just put a date in the strtotime for example