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<refentry xml:id="function.mktime" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
<refnamediv>
<refname>mktime</refname>
<refpurpose>Get Unix timestamp for a date</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<type class="union"><type>int</type><type>false</type></type><methodname>mktime</methodname>
<methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>hour</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type class="union"><type>int</type><type>null</type></type><parameter>minute</parameter><initializer>&null;</initializer></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type class="union"><type>int</type><type>null</type></type><parameter>second</parameter><initializer>&null;</initializer></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type class="union"><type>int</type><type>null</type></type><parameter>month</parameter><initializer>&null;</initializer></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type class="union"><type>int</type><type>null</type></type><parameter>day</parameter><initializer>&null;</initializer></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type class="union"><type>int</type><type>null</type></type><parameter>year</parameter><initializer>&null;</initializer></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns the Unix timestamp corresponding to the arguments
given. This timestamp is a long integer containing the number of
seconds between the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) and the time
specified.
</para>
<para>
Any optional
arguments omitted or &null; will be set to the current value according
to the local date and time.
</para>
<warning>
<para>
Please note that the ordering of arguments is in an odd order:
<parameter>month</parameter>, <parameter>day</parameter>,
<parameter>year</parameter>, and not in the more reasonable order of
<parameter>year</parameter>, <parameter>month</parameter>,
<parameter>day</parameter>.
</para>
</warning>
<simpara>
Calling <function>mktime</function> without arguments is not supported,
and will result in an <classname>ArgumentCountError</classname>.
<function>time</function> can be used to get the current timestamp.
</simpara>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>hour</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The number of the hour relative to the start of the day determined by
<parameter>month</parameter>, <parameter>day</parameter> and <parameter>year</parameter>.
Negative values reference the hour before midnight of the day in question.
Values greater than 23 reference the appropriate hour in the following day(s).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>minute</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The number of the minute relative to the start of the <parameter>hour</parameter>.
Negative values reference the minute in the previous hour.
Values greater than 59 reference the appropriate minute in the following hour(s).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>second</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The number of seconds relative to the start of the <parameter>minute</parameter>.
Negative values reference the second in the previous minute.
Values greater than 59 reference the appropriate second in the following minute(s).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>month</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The number of the month relative to the end of the previous year.
Values 1 to 12 reference the normal calendar months of the year in question.
Values less than 1 (including negative values) reference the months in the previous year in reverse order, so 0 is December, -1 is November, etc.
Values greater than 12 reference the appropriate month in the following year(s).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>day</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The number of the day relative to the end of the previous month.
Values 1 to 28, 29, 30 or 31 (depending upon the month) reference the normal days in the relevant month.
Values less than 1 (including negative values) reference the days in the previous month, so 0 is the last day of the previous month, -1 is the day before that, etc.
Values greater than the number of days in the relevant month reference the appropriate day in the following month(s).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>year</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The number of the year, may be a two or four digit value,
with values between 0-69 mapping to 2000-2069 and 70-100 to
1970-2000. On systems where time_t is a 32bit signed integer, as
most common today, the valid range for <parameter>year</parameter>
is somewhere between 1901 and 2038.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
<function>mktime</function> returns the Unix timestamp of the arguments
given, or &false; if the timestamp doesn't fit in a PHP integer.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="changelog">
&reftitle.changelog;
<para>
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>&Version;</entry>
<entry>&Description;</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>8.0.0</entry>
<entry>
<parameter>hour</parameter> is no longer optional. If you need a Unix
timestamp, use <function>time</function>.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>8.0.0</entry>
<entry>
<parameter>minute</parameter>, <parameter>second</parameter>, <parameter>month</parameter>,
<parameter>day</parameter> and <parameter>year</parameter> are nullable now.
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<para>
<example>
<title><function>mktime</function> basic example</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
// Set the default timezone to use.
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
// Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
// Prints something like: 2006-04-05T01:02:03+00:00
echo date('c', mktime(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2006));
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title><function>mktime</function> example</title>
<para>
<function>mktime</function> is useful for doing date arithmetic
and validation, as it will automatically calculate the correct
value for out-of-range input. For example, each of the following
lines produces the string "Jan-01-1998".
</para>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
echo date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 32, 1997));
echo date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 13, 1, 1997));
echo date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1998));
echo date("M-d-Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 98));
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title>Last day of a month</title>
<para>
The last day of any given month can be expressed as the "0" day
of the next month, not the -1 day. Both of the following examples
will produce the string "The last day in Feb 2000 is: 29".
</para>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$lastday = mktime(0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 2000);
echo 'Last day in Feb 2000 is: ', date('d', $lastday);
$lastday = mktime(0, 0, 0, 4, -31, 2000);
echo 'Last day in Feb 2000 is: ', date('d', $lastday);
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<para>
<simplelist>
<member>The <classname>DateTimeImmutable</classname> class</member>
<member><function>checkdate</function></member>
<member><function>gmmktime</function></member>
<member><function>date</function></member>
<member><function>time</function></member>
</simplelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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