Require help formatting the time

[JeremyCanada26]

if I have a number like -5 which represents the offset from UTC, how do I format a time that I already have in this format? 2010-04-30 11:38:56"

 

btw, 2010-04-30 11:38:56 is already in UTC

 

I'd preferably like to break it up into two parts afterwards. One that says "April 10th, 2010" and another that says "6:38 PM"  (with no leading zero's)

[Sergey Popov]

Try this:

 

$t = strtotime('2010-04-30 11:38:56');
$t = mktime(date('G',$t)-5,date('i',$t),date('s',$t),date('n',$t),date('j',$t),date('Y',$t));
$t1 = date('F jS, Y',$t);
$t2 = date('h:i A',$t);

echo $t1 , $t2;

[JeremyCanada26]

Now that seems like it will work fine, but what happens if the -5 becomes -13 or +13, will this still actually work?

 

 

[Sergey Popov]

Yes, it will work if you replace in line #2 above: -5 to -13 or to whatsoever you like even -66.

 

All you need to check this, is to surround the code above with <?php  ?>, put it in a file with .php extension and try

[JeremyCanada26]

what if -5 becomes a positive number like +5 or +10?

 

Actually, no plus signs

[JAY6390]

Wow that second line you used was very bloated Sergey, how about something like this

 

$hour_diff = -4;
$t = strtotime('2010-04-30 11:38:56');
$t = $t + ($hour_diff * 3600);
$t1 = date('F jS, Y',$t);
$t2 = date('h:i A',$t);

echo $t1 , $t2;

[Sergey Popov]

Very smart.. The way you use will work in most cases but there will be problems with leap-year. My solution is more accurate

[JAY6390]

Yours is in no way more accurate, mine adds the correct amount of seconds to the unix timestamp of the said time, and then formats it exactly like yours does. can you show me an example of how mine is different for any particular date?

[Sergey Popov]

You're right JAY6390, I mistake. I have a delusion that adding hours, days etc. with just incrementing by NNN seconds might be incorrect, while function mktime() respect things like daylight saving time and leap years. Anyway I always use mktime rather than multiplying seconds.