Get most recent date from an array of dates

Question

I have the array of dates below

array(5) { 
    [0]=> string(19) "2012-06-11 08:30:49" 
    [1]=> string(19) "2012-06-07 08:03:54" 
    [2]=> string(19) "2012-05-26 23:04:04" 
    [3]=> string(19) "2012-05-27 08:30:00" 
    [4]=> string(19) "2012-06-08 08:30:55" 
}

and would like to know the most recent date as in: the closest to today's date.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

Do a loop, convert the values to date, and store the most recent, in a var.

$mostRecent= 0;
foreach($dates as $date){
  $curDate = strtotime($date);
  if ($curDate > $mostRecent) {
     $mostRecent = $curDate;
  }
}

something like that... you get the idea If you want most recent BEFORE today :

$mostRecent= 0;
$now = time();
foreach($dates as $date){
  $curDate = strtotime($date);
  if ($curDate > $mostRecent && $curDate < $now) {
     $mostRecent = $curDate;
  }
}

Answer 2

Use max(), array_map(), and strtotime().

$max = max(array_map('strtotime', $arr));
echo date('Y-m-j H:i:s', $max); // 2012-06-11 08:30:49

Answer 3

Sort the array by date, and then get the front value of the array.

$dates = array(5) { /** omitted to keep code compact */ }
$dates = array_combine($dates, array_map('strtotime', $dates));
arsort($dates);
echo $dates[0];

Answer 4

$dates = [
    "2012-06-11 08:30:49" 
    ,"2012-06-07 08:03:54" 
    ,"2012-05-26 23:04:04" 
    ,"2012-05-27 08:30:00" 
    ,"2012-06-08 08:30:55" 
];
echo date("Y-m-d g:i:s",max(array_map('strtotime',$dates)));

Answer 5

Thats my variant. It works with date in future.

$Dates = array( 
    "2012-06-11 08:30:49", 
    "2012-06-07 08:03:54", 
    "2012-05-26 23:04:04",
    "2012-05-27 08:30:00",
    "2012-06-08 08:30:55",
    "2012-06-12 07:45:45"
);
$CloseDate = array();
$TimeNow = time();
foreach ($Dates as $Date) {
  $DateToCompare = strtotime($Date);
  $Diff = $TimeNow - $DateToCompare;
  if ($Diff < 0) $Diff *= -1;
  if (count($CloseDate) == 0) {
    $CloseDate['Date'] = $Date;
    $CloseDate['Diff'] = $Diff;
    continue;
  }
  if ($Diff < $CloseDate['Diff']) {
    $CloseDate['Date'] = $Date;
    $CloseDate['Diff'] = $Diff;
  }
}

var_dump($CloseDate);

Answer 6

I believe, following is the shortest code to find the recent date. you can alter it to find the index of the recent date or to find the recent in future or past.

$Dates = array( 
"2012-06-11 08:30:49", 
"2012-06-07 08:03:54", 
"2012-05-26 23:04:04",
"2012-05-27 08:30:00",
"2012-06-08 08:30:55",
"2012-06-22 07:45:45"
);

$close_date = current($Dates);
foreach($Dates as $date)
    if( abs(strtotime('now') - strtotime($date)) < abs(strtotime('now') - strtotime($close_date)))
        $close_date = $date;

echo $close_date;

Answer 7

Here is my suggestion:

$most_recent = 0;

foreach($array as $key => $date){
    if( strtotime($date) < strtotime('now') && strtotime($date) > strtotime($array[$most_recent]) ){
        $most_recent = $key;
    }
}

print $array[$most_recent]; //prints most recent day

Answer 8

$arrayy = array(
    "2012-06-11 08:30:49","2012-06-07 08:03:54","2012-05-26 23:04:04",
    "2012-05-27 08:30:00","2012-06-08 08:30:55" 
);

function getMostRecent($array){
    $current = date("Y-m-d h:i:s");
    $diff1 = NULL;
    $recent = NULL;
    foreach($array as $date){
        if($diff = strcmp($current,$date)){
            if($diff1 == NULL){
                $diff1 = $diff;
                $recent = $date;
            }
            else{
                if($diff < $diff1){
                    $diff1 = $diff;
                    $recent = $date;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return $recent;
}

Answer 9

Try this:

public function getLargerDate(array $datas) {
    $newDates = array();
    foreach($datas as $data){
        $newDates[strtotime($data)] = $data;
    }
    return $newDates[max(array_keys($newDates))];
}

Answer 10

Try this works 100%

function getRecentDate($date_list,$curDate){
$curDate = strtotime($curDate); 
    $mostRecent = array();
    foreach($date_list as $date){                                             
       $diff = strtotime($date)-$curDate;
       if($diff>0){
        $mostRecent[$diff] = $date;
       }
    }   
    if(!empty($mostRecent)){
        ksort($mostRecent);            
        $mostRecent_key = key($mostRecent);
        if($mostRecent_key){
            return $mostRecent[$mostRecent_key];
        }
    }else{
        return false;
    }
}
$date_list = array('15-05-2015','14-01-2015','18-03-2015','20-10-2016','12-12-2014','12-12-2015');
$curDate = '14-01-2015';    
$get_recent = getRecentDate($date_list,$curDate);
if($get_recent){
    echo $get_recent;
}else{
    echo 'No recent date exists';
}

Answer 11

$DatesList = array( '2015-05-19', '2015-09-17', '2015-09-24', '2015-10-02', '2015-10-23', '2015-11-12', '2015-12-25' );

$counter = 0; 
$currentDate = date("Y-m-d");
foreach ($DatesList as $dates)
{
    if($dates >= $currentDate)
    {
        $storeDates[$counter] = $dates;
        $counter++;
    }
}
$closestDate = current($storeDates);
echo $closestDate;