PHP Check if current time is before specified time

Question

I need to check in PHP if the current time is before 2pm that day.

I\'ve done this with strtotime on dates before, however this time it\'s with a time o

Answer 1

This function will check if it's between hours in EST by accepting 2 params, arrays with the hour and am/pm...

    /**
     * Check if between hours array(12,'pm'), array(2,'pm')
     */
    function is_between_hours($h1 = array(), $h2 = array())
    {
        date_default_timezone_set('US/Eastern');
        $est_hour = date('H');

        $h1 = ($h1[1] == 'am') ? $h1[0] : $h1[0]+12;
        $h1 = ($h1 === 24) ? 12 : $h1;

        $h2 = ($h2[1] == 'am') ? $h2[0] : $h2[0]+12;
        $h2 = ($h2 === 24) ? 12 : $h2;

        if ( $est_hour >= $h1 && $est_hour <= ($h2-1) )
            return true;

        return false;
    }

Answer 2

If you want to check whether the time is before 2.30 pm ,you can try the following code segment .

if (date('H') < 14.30) {
   $pre2pm = true;   
}else{
   $pre2pm = false;
}

Answer 3

You could just pass in the time

if (time() < strtotime('2 pm')) {
   //not yet 2 pm
}

Or pass in the date explicitly as well

if (time() < strtotime('2 pm ' . date('d-m-Y'))) {
   //not yet 2 pm
}