Question

I am really upset with the script I made, in which I did comparison of timestamps.
I can see that the timestamps are totally different.

1. For 2012-10-02 03:06:21, timestamp is: 1349190381
2. For 2012-10-02 04:00:50, timestamp is: 1349150450

I can’t understand why the second one timestamp is lower than the first, even if the time is bigger. How can I compare two dates?

I am getting these values by strtotime() function.

Clarification: I am using

$current_timestamp = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

$till_date_timestamp = strtotime($database_object->till_date);

Answer 1

this is the result that i got. They differ from what you mentioned in the question.

Code:

    echo strtotime('2012-10-02 03:06:21'); //outputs: 1349147181
    echo "\n";
    echo strtotime('2012-10-02 04:00:50'); //outputs: 1349150450

Edit:

$till_date_timestamp = strtotime($database_object->till_date); make sure that $database_object->till_date is a string.