note 52684 modified in function.strtotime by colder

Here's a quick one-line function you can use to get the time difference for relative times. But default, if you put in a relative time (like "1 minute"), you get that relative to the current time. Using this function will give you just the time difference in seconds: <?php function relative_time( $input ) { return strtotime($input) - time(); } ?> For example "1 minute" will return 60, while "30 seconds ago" will return -30 Valid relative time formats can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/Date-input-formats.html#SEC114 --was-- Here's a quick one-line function you can use to get the time difference for relative times. But default, if you put in a relative time (like "1 minute"), you get that relative to the current time. Using this function will give you just the time difference in seconds: <?php function relative_time( $input ) { return strtotime($input) - time(); } ?> For example "1 minute" will return 60, while "30 seconds ago" will return -30 Valid relative time formats can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_7.html#SEC115 http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php