Functions to round off dates to different time units.
trimToSeconds
Trim the date to seconds, rounding off all milliseconds to zero.
Input parameters
- date that should be trimmed Type: DateTime
Output
The same date, only rounded down to seconds. Type: DateTime
(assume a variable $myDate that represents ‘08-06-2008 10:12:51.387’)
trimToSeconds($myDate)
returns:
'Sun Jun 08 10:12:51 CEST 2008'
trimToMinutes
Trim the date to minutes, rounding off all (milli)seconds to zero.
Input parameters
- date that should be trimmed Type: DateTime
Output
The same date, only rounded down to minutes. Type: DateTime
(assume a variable $myDate that represents ‘08-06-2008 10:12:51’)
trimToMinutes($myDate)
returns:
'Sun Jun 08 10:12:00 CEST 2008'
trimToHours[UTC]
Trim the date to hours, rounding off all minutes down to zero. trimToHours uses the user’s timezone and trimToHoursUTC uses the UTC timezone.
Input parameters
- date that should be trimmed Type: DateTime
Output
The same date, only rounded down to hours. Type: DateTime
(assume a variable $myDate that represents ‘08-06-2008 10:12:51’)
trimToHours($myDate)
returns:
'Sun Jun 08 10:00:00 CEST 2008'
trimToDays[UTC]
Trim the date to days, rounding off all hours to zero. trimToDays uses the user’s timezone and trimToDaysUTC uses the UTC timezone.
Input parameters
- date that should be trimmed Type: DateTime
Output
The same date, only rounded down to days. Type: DateTime
(assume a variable $myDate that represents ‘08-06-2008 10:12:51’)
trimToDays($myDate)
returns:
'Sun Jun 08 00:00:00 CEST 2008'
trimToMonths[UTC]
Trim the date to months, rounding off all days to zero. trimToMonths uses the user’s timezone and trimToMonthsUTC uses the UTC timezone.
Input parameters
- date that should be trimmed Type: DateTime
Output
The same date, only rounded down to months. Type: DateTime
(assume a variable $myDate that represents ‘08-06-2008 10:12:51’)
trimToMonths($myDate)
returns:
'Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 CEST 2008'
trimToYears[UTC]
Trim the date to years, rounding off all months, days to zero. trimToYears uses the user’s timezone and trimToYearsUTC uses the UTC timezone.
Input parameters
- date that should be trimmed Type: DateTime
Output
The same date, only rounded down to years. Type: DateTime
(assume a variable $myDate that represents ‘08-06-2008 10:12:51’)
trimToYears($myDate)
returns:
'Tue Jan 08 00:00:00 CEST 2008'