DateTimeImmutable::sub

(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DateTimeImmutable::sub Subtracts an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds

Description

public DateTimeImmutable::sub(DateInterval $interval): DateTimeImmutable

Returns a new DateTimeImmutable object, with the specified DateInterval object subtracted from the specified DateTimeImmutable object.

Parameters

interval

A DateInterval object

Return Values

Returns a new DateTimeImmutable object with the modified data or false on failure.

Examples

Example #1 DateTimeImmutable::sub() example

Object-oriented style

<?php
$date 
= new DateTimeImmutable('2000-01-20');
$newDate $date->sub(new DateInterval('P10D'));
echo 
$newDate->format('Y-m-d') . "\n";
?>

The above examples will output:

2000-01-10

Example #2 Further DateTimeImmutable::sub() examples

<?php
$date 
= new DateTimeImmutable('2000-01-20');
$newDate $date->sub(new DateInterval('PT10H30S'));
echo 
$newDate->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "\n";

$date = new DateTimeImmutable('2000-01-20');
$newDate $date->sub(new DateInterval('P7Y5M4DT4H3M2S'));
echo 
$newDate->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "\n";
?>

The above example will output:

2000-01-19 13:59:30
1992-08-15 19:56:58

Example #3 Beware when subtracting months

<?php
$date 
= new DateTimeImmutable('2001-04-30');
$interval = new DateInterval('P1M');

$newDate1 $date->sub($interval);
echo 
$newDate1->format('Y-m-d') . "\n";

$newDate2 $newDate1->sub($interval);
echo 
$newDate2->format('Y-m-d') . "\n";
?>

The above example will output:

2001-03-30
2001-03-02

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