Reply To: Extract and compare month from two date time picker fields

• John Huebner

• October 17, 2020 at 5:52 am

I’ve recently needed to do something similar, also don’t forget that you could have something that run from December of one year to January of the following year.

I don’t use DateTime because I feel it just over complicates things, but here is the code I used for that site.

$this_year = date('Y');

$start_date = get_field('start_date');
$start_time = strtotime($start_date);
$start_year = date('Y', $start_time);
$start_month = date('F', $start_time);
$start_day = date('j', $start_time);

$end_date = get_field('end_date');
$end_time = strtotime($end_date);
$end_year = date('Y', $end_time);
$end_month = date('F', $end_time);
$end_day = date('j', $end_time);

if ($end_year != $start_year) {
  $display_date = $start_month.' '.$start_day.', '.$start_year.' - '.$end_month.' '.$end_day.', '.$end_year;
} elseif ($end_month != $start_month) {
  $display_date = $start_month.' '.$start_day.' - '.$end_month.' '.$end_day;
  if ($start_year != $this_year) {
    $display_date .= ', '.$start_year;
  }
} elseif ($end_day != $start_day) {
  $display_date = $start_month.' '.$start_day.' - '.$end_day;
  if ($start_year != $this_year) {
    $display_date .= ', '.$start_year;
  }
} else {
  $display_date = $start_month.' '.$start_day;
  if ($start_year != $this_year) {
    $display_date .= ', '.$start_year;
  }
}
echo $display_date;