timezone from php.ini

UTC

set the timezone in a program

America/Los_Angeles

using the date function from the computer

2026/08/25

assigning the timestamp to a variable

1787648697

you can create a timestamp for January 15, 2006 as by using the strtotime function

1137312000

today plus 1 day using the strtotime function

1787727600

subtracting $importantDate from today using the strtotime function

-86400 $today - $importantDate 1787641200 - 1787727600

86400 $importantDate - $today 1787727600 - 1787641200

-24 to find the amount of hours since the important date, look at the php program.