Add/Subtract one second from date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

[jmurch]

I am trying to work around something and need to add and subtract one second  to the times.  I'm using the format:

 

$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

 

I need to ultimatley have the results such as:

 

$now = (date("Y-m-d H:i:s") - :01);

 

or

 

$now = (date("Y-m-d H:i:s") + :01);

 

TIA, Jeff

 

[xyph]

Use timestamps instead

 

$stamp = time();

 

echo 'One second ago '. date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $stamp-1);

[mikesta707]

You can add a unix timestamp into the second parameter of the date() function in order to use your own time stamp and have it formatted via date.. In this case, your own time stamp would be the current time minus 1 second. You can get the current time stamp using the time() function. So if we do

$time = time() -1;//time stamp is in seconds, so now -1 would be the current date minus 1

$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $time);

 

 

Hope this helps

 

Edit: Ninjad by xyph, but I believe xyph mean to use time() instead of timestamp() (correct me if I'm wrong) So im posting anyways