Re: Calculating dates
| From: | Ron Piggott | Date: | Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:32:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Calculating dates | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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Thanks. That's a nifty way of doing this. Ron
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 22:08 -0800, Jim Lucas wrote:
> Ron Piggott wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to calculate the number of days between two dates?
> >
> > Example: 2008-02-27 - 2007-12-03 = 86 days
> >
> > The dates will be in the format above YYYY-MM-DD
> >
> > Ron
> >
>
> This should do the trick
>
> <?php
>
> $date1 = '2008-02-27';
> $date2 = '2007-12-03';
>
> $udate1 = strtotime($date1);
> $udate2 = strtotime($date2);
>
> $factor = 86400;
>
>
> $difference = (($udate1 - $udate2) / $factor);
>
> echo "The difference is {$difference} days";
>
>
> Jim