Title: Date return code is not working
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Date return code is not working

 *  [Simon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonlg/)
 * (@simonlg)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-return-code-is-not-working/)
 * Hi,
 * I had a developer do some changes to the Newsletter plugin for me. I needed a
   new variable created that returned the date 14 days from today. The idea is that
   when someone registers with the website, they get an autoresponse email giving
   them 14 days to come in to get a free sample.
 * The additional change worked when I tested it, but now that the site has been
   deployed, I have received feedback that it isn;t working. When I look at the 
   code that was added, the developer added the following line of code:
    ‘$text 
   = str_replace(‘{future_date}’, date(get_option(‘date_format’), mktime(0, 0, 0,
   date(‘n’), date(‘j’)+14, date(‘y’))), $text);’
 * The idea is that this code will allow me to add {future_date} to the newsletter
   form, and it will return the date + 14 days.
 * Because it was initially working, but now isn’t, the most likely culpret is the
   date is now invalid. I did some investigation of the mktime function, and I believe
   that I have found the problem. In the code it is ‘returning date(‘n’)’ which 
   is the numeric representation of the month, ‘date(‘j’) which is the numeric representation
   for the day, and date(‘y’) which is the numeric representation for the year.
 * If I am reading the code correctly, as he has added +14 to the date(‘j’), when
   I run the code today (today is 20 April 2012), it is returning a value of 34 
   April 2012.
 * Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can fix this code so that it is 
   returning a result 14 days from today while also taking into account the end 
   of months? I have tried to contact the developer but am not getting any responses.
 * Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
 * Thanks
 * Simon

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 *  [Ross Hanney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rosshanney/)
 * (@rosshanney)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-return-code-is-not-working/#post-2699108)
 * Hi Simon,
 * I think this should do the trick:
 *     ```
       $text = str_replace( '{future_date}', date( get_option( 'date_format' ), time() + ( 14 * 86400 ) ), $text );
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-return-code-is-not-working/#post-2699108)
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