(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)
DateTime::sub — Subtracts an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds from a DateTime object
Subtracts the specified DateInterval object from the specified DateTime object.
Procedural style only: A DateTime object returned by date_create()
The amount to be subtracted. For the date use "P3D", "P3M", "P3Y" or a combination of the three e.g. "P2M5D" (Y = Years, M = Months, D = Days.) MUST BE YEAR MONTH DAY FORMAT "P5Y", "P5M2D", "P5Y4D". For the time use "T3H", "T3M", "T3S" or or a combination of the three e.g. "T5H20M" (H = Hours, M = Minutes, S = Seconds). For dateTime us "P5D2M4YT5H20M". The digit before the letter (NOT P or T) can be any amount.
Returns the modified DateTime.
Example #1 date_sub() example
<?php
$date = new DateTime("18-July-2008 16:30:30");
echo $date->format("d-m-Y H:i:s").'<br />';
date_sub($date, new DateInterval("P5D"));
echo '<br />'.$date->format("d-m-Y").' : 5 Days';
date_sub($date, new DateInterval("P5M"));
echo '<br />'.$date->format("d-m-Y").' : 5 Months';
date_sub($date, new DateInterval("P5Y"));
echo '<br />'.$date->format("d-m-Y").' : 5 Years';
date_sub($date, new DateInterval("P5Y5M5D"));
echo '<br />'.$date->format("d-m-Y").' : 5 Days, 5 Months, 5 Years';
date_sub($date, new DateInterval("P5YT5H"));
echo '<br />'.$date->format("d-m-Y H:i:s").' : 5 Years, 5 Hours';
?>
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