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]=> st         


        

Answer 1

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);