Re: Re: subtracting times (solution)

It took me about 30 mins but after 2 attempts i came up with a function that subtracts 2 times to give an answer in hours, to two decimal places. thanks for your help the two people who responded when i posted the question, your suggestions were a bit out on a tangent from what i wanted. But they got me kinda thinkin about it. the purpose of this is to calculate staffs payroll, by gettin their shift total of hours, this script assumes that a person will be starting work on one day, and finishing before 4am the next day. here's the code if your interested ================================================================= <? function subtract_times($time1, $time2){ $time1array = split(":",$time1); $time2array = split(":",$time2); $hours1 = ( ( $time1array[0] ) * 60 ); $minutes1 = $time1array[1]; $hours2 = ( ( $time2array[0] ) * 60 ); $minutes2 = $time2array[1]; $subtotal1 = ($hours1 + $minutes1); $subtotal2 = ($hours2 + $minutes2); if ( ("0" <= $subtotal2) && ( $subtotal2 <= "300") ){ $subtotal1 = ( 1440 - ( $subtotal1 ) ); $total = ( round ( ( ($subtotal1 + $subtotal2) / 60 ) , 2 ) ); } else{ $subtotal = ( ( ( $hours2 - $hours1 ) ) + ( $minutes2 - $minutes1 ) ); $total = ( round ( ( ($subtotal) / 60 ) , 2 ) ) ; } return $total; } _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger - fast, easy and FREE! http://messenger.msn.co.uk