subtract 1 day

[meltedown]

I can't see what I'm doing wrong. I'm subtracting 60*60*24 from a unix
time stamp and the result is 23 hours earlier, not 24.
Start with a unix time stamp:

$unixtime=1144018006;

convert it to a date:
$date=getdate($unixtime);
date Array
(
[seconds] => 46
[minutes] => 46
[hours] => 17
[mday] => 2
[wday] => 0
[mon] => 4
[year] => 2006
[yday] => 91
[weekday] => Sunday
[month] => April
[0] => 1144018006
)
date
subtract 1 day:
$gobackseconds=60*60*24 ;
$unixtime2=$unixtime-$gobackseconds;

and see what time it is:
$date2=getdate($unixtime2);
date2 Array
(
[seconds] => 46
[minutes] => 46
[hours] => 16
[mday] => 1
[wday] => 6
[mon] => 4
[year] => 2006
[yday] => 90
[weekday] => Saturday
[month] => April
[0] => 1143931606
)
date2

Notice that in the first date, there are 17 hours, and in the second
date there are 16 hours. Arrrrrrg. What is the problem ?

[Andy Jeffries]

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:06:55 +0000, meltedown wrote:

I can't see what I'm doing wrong. I'm subtracting 60*60*24 from a unix
time stamp and the result is 23 hours earlier, not 24. Start with a unix
time stamp:

Try doing this instead:

$unixtime2 = strtotime("-1 day", $unixtime);

I couldn't see what you were doing wrong in your code from a quick glance,
but the above way is easier to read anyway.

Cheers,
Andy

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[meltedown]

Andy Jeffries wrote:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:06:55 +0000, meltedown wrote:

I can't see what I'm doing wrong. I'm subtracting 60*60*24 from a unix
time stamp and the result is 23 hours earlier, not 24. Start with a unix
time stamp:

Try doing this instead:

$unixtime2 = strtotime("-1 day", $unixtime);

I couldn't see what you were doing wrong in your code from a quick glance,
but the above way is easier to read anyway.

Cheers,
Andy

Thanks that really helped a lot, five minutes to fix what I've been
banging my head against all night. Funny thing is that code worked fine
for a year and it still works for most dates but it hit that one date
and didn't work right.

[Andy Jeffries]

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:59:19 +0000, meltedown wrote:

Try doing this instead:

$unixtime2 = strtotime("-1 day", $unixtime);

I couldn't see what you were doing wrong in your code from a quick
glance, but the above way is easier to read anyway.
Thanks that really helped a lot, five minutes to fix what I've been
banging my head against all night.

It's always the way with coding.... Glad I could help.
Funny thing is that code worked fine
for a year and it still works for most dates but it hit that one date and
didn't work right.

It's very odd. I've had another quick glance at your code and still can't
see anything obviously wrong. Never mind, you've got a solution now.

Cheers,
Andy

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[Kimmo Laine]

"meltedown" <gr*****@reenie.org> wrote in message
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Andy Jeffries wrote:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:06:55 +0000, meltedown wrote:

I can't see what I'm doing wrong. I'm subtracting 60*60*24 from a unix
time stamp and the result is 23 hours earlier, not 24. Start with a unix
time stamp:

Try doing this instead:

$unixtime2 = strtotime("-1 day", $unixtime);

I couldn't see what you were doing wrong in your code from a quick
glance,
but the above way is easier to read anyway.

Cheers,
Andy

Thanks that really helped a lot, five minutes to fix what I've been
banging my head against all night. Funny thing is that code worked fine
for a year and it still works for most dates but it hit that one date and
didn't work right.

I had the same effect when clocks were turned +1 hour to daylight saving
time on March 26th here in Finland. I had two dates of which one was in
normal time and another that was in daylight saving time and I kept
wondering why the difference between them is was 5 days and 23 hours or
something like that, until the whole daylight saving thing finally dawned to
me. I fixed it by using GMT times which are not affected by DST.

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