PHP Getting yesterday date

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6796866/php-date-yesterday

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date() itself is only for formatting, but it accepts a second parameter. date("F j, Y", time() - 60 * 60 * 24); To keep it simple I just subtract 24 hours from the unix timestamp. A modern oop-approach is using DateTime $date = new DateTime(); $date->sub(new DateInterval('P1D')); echo $date->format('F j, Y') . "\n"; Or in your case (more readable/obvious) $date = new DateTime(); $date->add(DateInterval::createFromDateString('yesterday')); echo $date->format('F j, Y') . "\n"; (Because DateInterval is negative here, we must add() it here) See also: DateTime::sub() and DateInterval shareimprove this answer edited Jul 22 '11 at 22:53 answered Jul 22 '11 at 22:45 KingCrunch 61.3k1089128

Thanks for the quick response. – Alex Jul 22 '11 at 23:00 2   very good answer, there are many ways to do it but you have the simple one, short and easy to understand ( + the OOP one for those interested in using more RAM ;) – neofutur Apr 12 '12 at 8:04 2   @neofutur Beside "we want to waste our RAM" the OOP-approach is useful, when you already have either aDateTime-, or a DateInterval-object (or both), which may be the case in an OOP-based application (e.g. $customer->expire->add(DateInterval::createFromDateString('+1 year')) // customer paid for one additional year) Also note, that DateInterval understands ISO8601 for time intervals, but date() doesn't. At the end of course: Select the one you better fit your needs :) – KingCrunch Apr 12 '12 at 8:19  8   This is NOT a correct answer!! Daylight savings makes 23 and 25 hour days. So this is NOT giving you a good answer 2 hours of the year!!! – patrick Apr 24 '13 at 15:25 3   @patrick Interesting point :) Yes, you are right, but this is only true for the first solution, not the following utilizing DateInterval. – KingCrunch Apr 25 '13 at 14:26 show 2 more comments

up vote78down vote	strtotime(), as in date("F j, Y", strtotime("yesterday")); shareimprove this answer answered Jul 22 '11 at 22:46 Explosion Pills 113k26127198
	10   +1 because this makes the intent a bit more obvious when scanning through the code. Self-documenting code and all that. – Justin ᚅᚔᚈᚄᚒᚔ Jul 22 '11 at 22:48 add a comment

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How easy :) date("F j, Y", strtotime( '-1 days' ) );