Date and time utilities in PHP

To check to see if we have gone past a specific date:

if (new DateTime() > new DateTime("2022-03-09 09:11:00")) {
    # current time is greater than 2010-05-15 16:00:00
    # in other words, 2010-05-15 16:00:00 has passed
}

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