adding two time values of similar formats using php

datetime, php

Solution

this code sample would take hour in `$time` and add the hour in `$time2` to it

for example: time=06:58:00, time2=00:40:00, result = 07:38:00

$time = "06:58:00";
$time2 = "00:40:00";

$secs = strtotime($time2)-strtotime("00:00:00");
$result = date("H:i:s",strtotime($time)+$secs);

Problem

i have two time values as give below ``` $time = 06:58:00; $time2 = 00:40:00; ``` I am doing this for calculating the appointments and available time for a particular user so i tried in this way ``` $max_date=abs(strtotime($time) + strtotime($time2)); ``` but it is returning $max_date =2673452280 any suggestions pls

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