How to get current date/time as a date object in PHP

To get difference in days use this:

$today = new DateTime('today');

the time in this object eill be 00:00:00

If you want difference with hours minutes and seconds use this:

$now = new DateTime('now');

new DateTime('now');

http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.construct.php

Comparing is easy:

$today = new DateTime('now');
$newYear = new DateTime('2012-01-01');

if ($today > $newYear) {

}

Op's edit I just needed to call date_default_timezone_set, and then this code worked for me.

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