Question

For example, given 1339372800, which is Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT, I would like to get the next X hours including 1339372800. So for the next 3 hours, the result would be

+------------+
| hours      |
+------------+
| 1339372800 |
| 1339376400 |
| 1339380000 |
+------------+

I think I need to create a loop but I don’t know how to proceed from that. Thanks.

Answer 1

You could use a numbers table as Creating a "Numbers Table" in mysql that contains all hours for a considerate amount of time, and query that:

SELECT hour
FROM hours
WHERE hour >= 1339372800
ORDER BY hour ASC
LIMIT 3

That makes the query really easy, and the table should not be too big, either. (Less than 90k rows for 10 years.)