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Asked: 2026-05-20T08:31:19+00:00

I need to compare a timestamp to a date. I would just like to

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I need to compare a timestamp to a date. I would just like to compare the date portion without the time bit. I need to check whether a timestamp occurs on the day before yesterday i.e. today – 2.

Could you show me a snippet please? Thank you.

I’ve been reading through the PHP docs but couldn’t find a very clean way of doing this. What I found was converting the timestamp to a date with a particular format and comparing it to a date which I get by doing a time delta to get the date before yesterday and converting it to a particular format. Messy.

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    You can arcieve this by using the function strtotime.

    To round to a day I personaly like to edit the timestamp. This is a notations of seconds since epoch. One day is 86400 seconds, so if you do the following caculation:

    $time = $time - ( $time  % 86400 );

    You can convert it back to a date again with the date function of PHP, for example:

    $readableFormat = date( 'd-m-Y', $time );

    There is also much on the internet about this topic.

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