php string in a date format, add 12 hours

Question

I have this string object in my php array

\"2013-03-05 00:00:00+00\"

I would like to add 12 hours to the entry within PHP, then save it back to

Answer 1

If you have dynamic interval, this way will avoid errors of wrong format for $dateDiff:

$dateDiff = "12 hours";
$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString($dateDiff);
$date = new DateTime("2013-03-05 00:00:00+00");
$date->add($interval);
echo $date->format("Y-m-d H:i:sO");