Increment date by one day | < PHP 5.2 | Web Developer in Boulder CO The Blog

If you want to increment a date by one day you need to do it using the PHP DateTime function so that you can account for leap years.

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

$time_stamp = strtotime('0000-00-00 00:00:00');

$date = new DateTime();

$date->setTimestamp($time_stamp);

$date->add(new DateInterval('P1D'));

echo $date->format('l dS \o\f F Y h:i:s A') . "\n";

Compatible with (PHP 5 >= 5.2.0)

to check your PHP version run

phpinfo();

or if you are running the below script from the command line

php -v;

note: php -v does not get the version of your php that you are running as an ISAPI module on the web server.

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