Issue with strtotime() and setting timezone

Question

I get how to use strtotime, but I first need to set a timezone, which is causing an issue:

$date = new DateTime();
$date->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));
$idate = $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); 
$fdate=strtotime($idate,"+2 hours");

$idate comes out fine, in the correct timezone, in this format: 2016-07-25 15:56:24

How can I add 2 hours onto this and return a variable in the same format?

Possible duplicate of [Add 'x' amount of hours to date](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11386308/add-x-amount-of-hours-to-date) — galeaspablo, Jul 25 '16 at 20:01
Please look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11386308/add-x-amount-of-hours-to-date - it has several good answers. My favorite one is the OO answer. — galeaspablo, Jul 25 '16 at 20:02
I suggest you take a look here: http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.add.php. Also, `strtotime` converts a human-readable string into a number representing the datetime, and it is completely independent of the class `DateTime`. — Nathan Robb, Jul 25 '16 at 20:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '16 at 20:04

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Try this:

$fdate=date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime($idate."+2 hours"));

answered Jul 25 '16 at 20:04

coderodour

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This worked perfectly! Thanks. I'll accept when I can in a few minutes. – jonmrich Jul 25 '16 at 20:05
glad i could be of assistance – coderodour Jul 25 '16 at 20:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 25 '16 at 20:03

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Using your $date, you can do:

$date = $date->add(new DateInterval('PT2H'));

and then format it as you like.

answered Jul 25 '16 at 20:03

Matteo Tassinari

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Issue with strtotime() and setting timezone

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