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How to get future date in Faker

How do I get future dates with:

https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker#fakerproviderdatetime

dateTime($max = 'now')

i.e. what should the $max value be for datetime in the future

Solution

  • Try passing a unix timestamp for $max:

    $unixTimestamp = '1461067200'; // = 2016-04-19T12:00:00+00:00 in ISO 8601

echo $faker->dateTime($unixTimestamp);

echo $faker->date('Y-m-d', $unixTimestamp);

// for all rows 
$faker->dateTimeBetween('now', $unixTimestamp);

    Or pass a strtotime timestring to $faker->dateTimeBetween():

    // between now and +30y
$faker->dateTimeBetween('now', '+30 years');