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I just found out there was a parameter called ‘since’ to use with the activity loop to get activities since a certain date and time.

‘since’ => // Y-m-d H:i:s

Just looking for some quick help with this time function I created. I’m not great with code and don’t understand the workings of how WordPress/Buddypress works with the date and time, but I wanted to create a function that converts ‘hours ago’ into the Y-m-d H:i:s format so it can be used with the ‘since’ parameter.

function get_time_since( $hours_ago='' ) { 

	// Local date and time right now
	$current_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
	
	// convert 'hours ago' to 'Y-m-d H:i:s'
	$date = date_create($current_date);
	date_sub($date, date_interval_create_from_date_string($hours_ago));
	
	return date_format($date, 'Y-m-d H:i:s');
}

// example use
// display posts in the last 6 hours
	function my_filter_activity( $loop ) { 

		if ( is_page( 'custom-page' )) {
			$loop['since'] = get_time_since( '6 hours' );
		}

		return $loop;
	}
	add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activity_parse_args', 'my_filter_activity' );

This works correctly where I am. The only thing I’m confused about is I don’t know if I have to detect a user’s time zone in the function for it to work correctly?