使用strtotime减去日期后的分钟

Question

I have the current date format $date = 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm' and notice that $date is already set and not using the Date class. I understand I have to use strtotime which I have done to my $date $datestr = strtotime($date) . I wish to subtract 5 minutes to the set time.

I've tried this simple thing $A = strtotime($date) - strtotime('-5 min'); But it does not aid me.

Answer 1

its simple to subtract the seconds of 5 minutes which is (5*60)=300 from your time

like this

$time = strtotime($date);
$time_new = $time-(5*60); // will time of the -5 min from the current $time

example

$date = date('d-M-Y g:i:s A'); // current date
echo $date."<br/>"; // output : 17-Feb-2014 8:35:58 AM
$time = strtotime($date);     // convert current date to timestamp
$time_new = $time - (5*60);   // subtract 5 minutes from current time.
$date_new = date('d-M-Y g:i:s A', $time_new); // convert time to the date again
echo $date_new;  // output : 17-Feb-2014 8:30:58 AM