mktime
Get Unix timestamp for a date
Syntax
mktime ([ int $hour = date("H") [, int $minute = date("i") [, int $second = date("s") [, int $month = date("n") [, int $day = date("j") [, int $year = date("Y") [, int $isDST = -1 ]]]]]]] ) : int
Parameters
hour
The number of the hour relative to the start of the day determined by month, day and year. Negative values reference the hour before midnight of the day in question. Values greater than 23 reference the appropriate hour in the following day(s).
minute
The number of the minute relative to the start of the hour. Negative values reference the minute in the previous hour. Values greater than 59 reference the appropriate minute in the following hour(s).
second
The number of seconds relative to the start of the minute. Negative values reference the second in the previous minute. Values greater than 59 reference the appropriate second in the following minute(s).
month
The number of the month relative to the end of the previous year. Values 1 to 12 reference the normal calendar months of the year in question. Values less than 1 (including negative values) reference the months in the previous year in reverse order, so 0 is December, -1 is November, etc. Values greater than 12 reference the appropriate month in the following year(s).
day
The number of the day relative to the end of the previous month. Values 1 to 28, 29, 30 or 31 (depending upon the month) reference the normal days in the relevant month. Values less than 1 (including negative values) reference the days in the previous month, so 0 is the last day of the previous month, -1 is the day before that, etc. Values greater than the number of days in the relevant month reference the appropriate day in the following month(s).
year
The number of the year, may be a two or four digit value, with values between 0-69 mapping to 2000-2069 and 70-100 to 1970-2000. On systems where time_t is a 32bit signed integer, as most common today, the valid range for year is somewhere between 1901 and 2038. However, before PHP 5.1.0 this range was limited from 1970 to 2038 on some systems (e.g. Windows).
isDST
This parameter can be set to 1 if the time is during daylight savings time (DST), 0 if it is not, or -1 (the default) if it is unknown whether the time is within daylight savings time or not. If it's unknown, PHP tries to figure it out itself. This can cause unexpected (but not incorrect) results. Some times are invalid if DST is enabled on the system PHP is running on or isDST is set to 1. If DST is enabled in e.g. 2:00, all times between 2:00 and 3:00 are invalid and mktime() returns an undefined (usually negative) value. Some systems (e.g. Solaris 8) enable DST at midnight so time 0:30 of the day when DST is enabled is evaluated as 23:30 of the previous day.
Note: As of PHP 5.1.0, this parameter became deprecated. As a result, the new timezone handling features should be used instead.
Note: This parameter has been removed in PHP 7.0.0.
Return
Returns the Unix timestamp of the arguments given. If the arguments are invalid, the function returns FALSE (before PHP 5.1 it returned -1).
Examples
void
<?
//$return = mktime();
$return = time();
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $return);
?>
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hour
<?
$hour = 4;
$return = mktime($hour);
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $return);
?>
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minute
<?
$hour = 4;
$minute = 5;
$return = mktime($hour, $minute);
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $return);
?>
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second
<?
$hour = 4;
$minute = 5;
$second = 6;
$return = mktime($hour, $minute, $second);
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $return);
?>
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month
<?
$hour = 4;
$minute = 5;
$second = 6;
$month = 2;
$return = mktime($hour, $minute, $second, $month);
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $return);
?>
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day
<?
$hour = 4;
$minute = 5;
$second = 6;
$month = 2;
$day = 3;
$return = mktime($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day);
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $return);
?>
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year
<?
$hour = 4;
$minute = 5;
$second = 6;
$month = 2;
$day = 3;
$year = 2001;
$return = mktime($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year);
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $return);
?>
2001-02-03 04:05:06
Previous
<?
$return = mktime(date("H") - 1, date("i") - 1, date("s") - 1, date("m") - 1, date("d") - 1, date("Y") - 1);
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $return);
?>
2020-03-18 23:26:08
Next
<?
$return = mktime(date("H") + 1, date("i") + 1, date("s") + 1, date("m") + 1, date("d") + 1, date("Y") + 1);
echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $return);
?>
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Lesser
<?
echo date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0, 2, 29, 2000)) . PHP_EOL;
echo date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 2000)) . PHP_EOL;
echo date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0, 4, -31, 2000));
?>
2000-02-29 2000-02-29 2000-02-29
Greater
<?
echo date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2001)) . PHP_EOL;
echo date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 32, 2000)) . PHP_EOL;
echo date("Y-m-d", mktime(0, 0, 0, 13, 1, 2000));
?>
2001-01-01 2001-01-01 2001-01-01