Re: Determine the difference between two dates
| From: | Ron Allen | Date: | Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:15:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Determine the difference between two dates | ||
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How is this going to give the overall time in difference... For instance
A circuit went down at 17:30:45 it came back up at 18:37:49
what is the difference in time between the 2 in the format Days XX Hours XX
Minutes XX Seconds XX
"Danny Shepherd" <danny.shepherd@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:027601c1e7a9$fbe6f0f0$0200a8c0@dannys...
> 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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