Re: Determine the difference between two dates

If I wanted to represent it in the format of Days,Hours,Minutes,Seconds how would that work "Danny Shepherd" <danny.shepherd@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:020e01c1e7a1$70098eb0$0200a8c0@dannys... > Firstly, I assume you mean "Y-m-j H:i:s" for the date format. > > To get the difference between 2 time strings : > > <?php > > // orginal time strings > $firstTime="2002-04-19 13:49:00"; > $lastTime="2002-04-19 14:00:00"; > > // convert to unix timestamps > $firstTime=strtotime($firstTime); > $lastTime=strtotime($lastTime); > > // perform subtraction to get the difference (in seconds) between times > $timeDiff=$lastTime-$firstTime; > > //echo out the difference > printf ("Difference is %d seconds",$timeDiff); > > ?> > > HTH > > Danny. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Allen" <allenr@fwd.areur.army.mil> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:08 PM > Subject: [PHP] Determine the difference between two dates > > > > If I have two variables of time both in the format of "Y-m-j J:i:s" > > How would I go about and get the difference? > >