Re: Date time Comparison

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I'd agree with what Richard is alluding to: turn your two dates into
timestamps, and then compare those.  mktime() or strtotime() should
help you out.

HTH,
John W

On 4/18/06, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://php.net/mktime may be more suitable, depending on the date
> range of the input.
>
> That said, as far as I can tell, your $formated_expiry_date is the
> SAME as your $expiry_date, except possibly for some separation
> characters.
>
> If the separation characters are ALWAYS the same, you could just do:
>
> $current_date = date('Y/m/d H:i:s'); //match formatting of expiry date.
> return $current_date < $expiry_date;
>
>
> On Tue, April 18, 2006 5:02 pm, Murtaza Chang wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > this is the function I have written for comparing a date time please
> > tell me
> > if my logic is correct ? and if there's a better alternative please
> > let me
> > know of that as well.
> > // This function will return 1 if supplied date is expired
> > function is_expire($expiry_date){
> > $current_date=date('YmdHis');
> > $year=substr($expiry_date,0,4);
> > $month=substr($expiry_date,5,2);
> > $day=substr($expiry_date,8,2);
> > $hour=substr($expiry_date,11,2);
> > $min=substr($expiry_date,14,2);
> > $sec=substr($expiry_date,17,2);
> > $formated_expiry_date=$year.$month.$day.$hour.$min.$sec;
> > if ($current_date>=$formated_expiry_date)
> > return 1;
> > else
> > return 0;
> > }
> > --
> > Murtaza Chang
> >
>
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