Re: Determine the difference between two dates
| From: | Danny Shepherd | Date: | Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:56:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Determine the difference between two dates | ||
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use the date() command (http://www.php.net/date) - using $timeDiff as the
datestamp.
HTH
Danny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Allen" <allenr@fwd.areur.army.mil>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] 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?
> >
> >
>
>
>
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