How to get PHP time tomorrow 6pm CST?

Question

I need get a timestamp in PHP for the next day 6pm CST

$tomorrow = mktime(18, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")+1, date("y"));
echo "Tomorrow is ".date("Y-m-d H:m:s ", $tomorrow);

I was unable to set the minutes part for the above code, it is always returning 11 in the minutes part.

Tomorrow is 2009-11-06 18:11:00

Answer 1

in your date format Y-m-d H:m:s you are showing the month twice m. use i for minutes with leading zeros: Y-m-d H:i:s (PHP Doc)

Answer 2

A simpler version is to use strtotime():

echo "Tomorrow is ".date("Y-m-d H:i:s ", strtotime("Tomorrow 6pm"));

including correcting the minutes (from m to i). Output:

Tomorrow is 2009-11-06 18:00:00