Question

How to subtract N seconds from current DateTime in PHP

Answer 1

$dt = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
 
echo $dt . "<br />";
 
$timestamp = strtotime($dt);
 
$time = $timestamp - 30; // 30 seconds
 
$dt = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $time);
 
echo $dt;
 
 
 
/*
run:
   
2019-09-20 05:17:34
2019-09-20 05:17:04
      
*/

 

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