mktime or turn time into number

[project3]

what I have is time in 12 hour format.

I want to turn it into a numeric value so I can do a > or < comparison.

 

I am familiar on using mktime with 24 hour format. but with 12 hour format im not sure where you would put the am pm part in.

 

I thought there was a time string to timestamp command in php but I cant seem to find what im looking for.

 

[kenrbnsn]

use the strtotime() function.

<?php
$date_str = '2008-02-03 3:00 PM';
$date_num = strtotime($date_str);
?>

 

Ken

[haku]

You can do this if you want to stick with unix timestamps (which I prefer)

 

if($am_pm == 'am')
{
    $hours = hours + 12;
}

 

Where $am_pm is a variable that either holds a value of AM or PM.

 

You can use $hours in your mktime() equation from there.