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php - convert hours : mins to the corresponding epoch time that the value would be today

I have 2 values that i wish to convert to the epoch equivilent that will happen today.

Currently i have; hour - 16 minute - 30

so here i've got half 4 or 16:30 which today would be 1314804607 in epoch

The question is how do I do this conversion each day to get the epoch value of today's 16:30

thanks for your help in advance,

It's that time and im tired :P probably really easy!

Andy

Solution

  • Since mktime defaults the values to the current date/time, we can only override the values you need:

    $hours = 16;
$minutes = 30;

echo mktime($hours, $minutes);

    That will always output the timestamp of 16:30 in your local timezone on the day it was ran...