How to return the timestamps from an indexed array of timestamps with the earliest and latest clock time?

There is a large array with timestamps, e.g.:

$timestamps = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < 5000; $i++) {
    $timestamps[] = mt_rand(strtotime('1900-01-01 00:00:00 am'), strtotime('2100-12-31 11:59:59 pm'));
}

Now I need to return the timestamps with the earliest (min) and latest (max) clock time.

My approach:

echo date('Y-m-d h:i:s a', min(array_map('callback', $timestamps)));
echo "\n";
echo date('Y-m-d h:i:s a', max(array_map('callback', $timestamps)));

function callback($timestamp) {
    return strtotime(date('h:i:s a', $timestamp));
}

This actually provides the earliest and latest clock time, but of course along with the current date (today).

How to return the original timestamps with the earliest and latest clock time?

>Solution :

You can use next code:

//run array_reduce over array
$res = array_reduce(
    $timestamps, // timestaps array
    function($res, $t) {
        // get time from timestamp
        $time = date('H:i:s', $t);

        // if result min not exists
        // or more then $time store new value to $res['min']
        if (is_null($res['min'][0]) || $time<$res['min'][0])
            $res['min'] = [$time, date('Y-m-d h:i:s a', $t)];


        // if result max not exists
        // or less then $time store new value to $res['max']
        if (is_null($res['max'][0]) || $time>$res['max'][0])
            $res['max'] = [$time, date('Y-m-d h:i:s a', $t)];

        // return updated result
        return $res;
    },
    // define initial $res with null values
    ['min'=>[null, null], 'max'=>[null, null]]
);

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Result:

Array
(
    [min] => Array
        (
            [0] => 00:00:30
            [1] => 1997-05-03 12:00:30 am
        )

    [max] => Array
        (
            [0] => 23:59:36
            [1] => 1983-07-21 11:59:36 pm
        )

)