Just wanted to double check and make sure my line of thinking is correct. This hook runs every 48 hours, so I need to check if an event is happening today or tomorrow.
$now = date('Y/m/d');
$today = explode("/", $now);
The event start date has the same format, but the value varies, and is stored the same way.
if ( $today[1] == $eventDate[1] &&
(intval($today[2]) == (intval($eventDate[2]-1)) || (intval($today[2]) == intval($eventDate[2])-2))) {
//run code
}