PHP date_timestamp_set() Function
Definition and Usage
The date_timestamp_set() function is an alias of DateTime::setTimestamp. This function accepts a DateTime object and an Unix timestamp as parameters and, sets the specified timestamp to the given object .
Syntax
date_timestamp_set($object, $timestamp)
Parameters
| Sr.No |
Parameter & Description |
| 1 |
object(Mandatory)
This is a DateTime object.
|
| 2 |
timestamp(Mandatory)
This is an Unix timestamp .
|
Return Values
PHP date_timestamp_set() function returns the DateTime object with modified (time) value. Incase of failure, this function returns the boolean value false.
PHP Version
This function was first introduced in PHP Version 5.3.0 and, works with all the later versions.
Example
Following example demonstrates the usage of the date_timestamp_set function −
Live Demo
<?php
$date = new DateTime();
$res = date_timestamp_set($date, 1505292545);
print("Date: ".date_format($res, "Y/m/d H:i:s"));
?>
This will produce following result −
Date: 2017/09/13 08:49:05
Example
Following example creates a DateTime object and modifies its value using the date_timestamp_set() function. −
<?php
$date = new DateTime();
$timestamp1 = time() - (23*12*30);
$res1 = date_timestamp_set($date, $timestamp1);
print("Date: ".date_format($res1, "Y/m/d H:i:s"));
print("\n");
$timestamp2 = time() + (23*12*30);
$res2 = date_timestamp_set($date, $timestamp2);
print("Date: ".date_format($res2, "Y/m/d H:i:s"));
?>
This will produce following result −
Date: 2020/05/11 08:57:30
Date: 2020/05/11 13:33:30
Example
As an alternative to this function you can just pass the timestamp value as a string preceded by "@" as a parameter to the DateTime construct −
Live Demo
<?php
$date = new DateTime("@1495283256");
print("Date: ".date_format($date, "Y/m/d H:i:s"));?>
Since we have set the month value as 15. Three months are added to the appropriate time −
Date: 2020/05/11 00:15:36
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