Question

So I have a MYSQL timestampl that is generating values that are 4hours ahead of what they should be. How would i subtract 4hrs from the MySQL time stamp and display that?

Here’s my current code

$mdate = date('F j, Y, g:i a',strtotime( $bm->date_added)); 
//$bm->dated_added returns the times stamp//
echo $mdate;

Thanks

Answer 1

When supplied with a second argument, strtotime() will perform calculations based on this date:

$mdate = date('F j, Y, g:i a', strtotime('-4 hours', $bm->date_added)); 

strtotime() can perform several calculations base on modifiers like these. Examples from the manual:

<?php
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";
echo strtotime("next Thursday"), "\n";
echo strtotime("last Monday"), "\n";
?>