strtotime

(PHP 3>= 3.0.12, PHP 4 >= 4.0b2)

strtotime --  Parse about any english textual datetime description into a UNIX timestamp

Description

int strtotime (string time [, int now])

The function expects to be given a string containing an english date format and will try to parse that format into a UNIX timestamp.

Example 1. Strtotime() examples


echo strtotime ("now") . "\n";
echo strtotime ("10 September 2000") . "\n";
echo strtotime ("+1 day") . "\n";
echo strtotime ("+1 week") . "\n";
echo strtotime ("+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds") . "\n";