Yesterday's time in PHP

: Joel Lipman; Personal Home Page; 30 September 2010; Hits: 4881

Quick tip or note to self: How to get yesterday's date irrespective of date format or daylight savings time.

$today=date("Y-m-d");
$yesterday = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m") , date("d") - 1, date("Y")));

$today=date("Y-m-d");
$yesterday = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m") , date("d") - 1, date("Y")));

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