PHP date comparison

Question

How would I check if a date in the format \"2008-02-16 12:59:57\" is less than 24 hours ago?

Answer 1

Just adding another answer, using strtotime's relative dates:

$date = '2008-02-16 12:59:57';
if (strtotime("$date +1 day") <= time()) {
    // Do something
}

I think this makes the code much more readable.