Subtracting a certain number of hours, days, months or years from date

I'm trying to create a simple function which returns me a date with a certain number of subtracted days from now, so something like this but I dont know the date classes well:

<?
function get_offset_hours ($hours) {
    return date ("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime (date ("Y-m-d H:i:s") /*and now?*/));
}

function get_offset_days ($days) {
    return date ("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime (date ("Y-m-d H:i:s") /*and now?*/));
}

function get_offset_months ($months) {
    return date ("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime (date ("Y-m-d H:i:s") /*and now?*/));
}

function get_offset_years ($years) {
    return date ("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime (date ("Y-m-d H:i:s") + $years));
}

print get_offset_years (-30);
?>

Is it possible to do something similar to this? this kind of function works for years, but how to do the same with other time types?