[ciapug] Dates question

[Chris Hettinger]

Thanks Tim that was very helpful.

-ch

Tim Perdue wrote:
> Chris Hettinger wrote:
> 
>> Working with dates still challenges me
>>
>> $date1 = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');  // current date
>> $date2 = X;
>>
>> I need to know if $date2 is 30 or more days in the future from the 
>> current date.
>>
>> If $date2 >= $date1 by 30 days
>>   echo 'date2 is more than 30 days in the future';
>> else
>>   echo 'date2 within 30 days of date1';
>>
>>
>> ^^--- how do I do this comparison?
> 
> 
> This is some date code from gforge:
> 
> $date_list = split('[- :]',$release_date,5);
> $release_date = 
> mktime($date_list[3],$date_list[4],0,$date_list[1],$date_list[2],$date_list[0]); 
> 
> 
> This rips a date like "2004-09-17 16:43" and makes it into unix time 
> (seconds since 1970).
> 
> You should be able to apply that logic to both of your dates and then test
> 
> if (($date2-$date1) > (30*24*60*60)) {
>     greater than 30 days
> }
> 
> Tim
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