Stepping through countdowns, unsure how to do this

Question

I have a somewhat working countdown script already with a defined time (using new DateTime) but haven't figured out how to automatically swap times daily.

I'm looking to do a countdown every day at 5:10, 5:50, and 6:15 PM UTC. If 5:10:00 passes, then swap the countdown for 5:50:00. If it's 6:16, then it'll show for 5:10 tomorrow

How would I be doing comparisons for this? It says something about a non-object when I try to just use the datetime'd variable in a > <

Answer 1

Rather than comparing the objects themselves, you can compare their timestamps. For example:

if($dateTime1->getTimestamp() > $dateTime2->getTimestamp()) {
    // ...
}