php - add 3 minutes to date variable

Question

I want to add 3 minutes to a date/time variable I have, but I\'m not sure how to do this. I made the variable from a string like this: (which is in the RFC 2822 date format

Answer 1

You could just use strtotime twice:

$date = strtotime('2011-10-18T19:56:00+0200');
echo date('G:i', strtotime('+3 minutes', $date));