note 70965 deleted from ref.datetime by danbrown

Note Submitter: mikeb at tracersinfo dot com ---- Another month late on this, but I would amend alex's post to recommend using gmdate() any time you're trying to represent a "delta time", or your local timezone is likely to interfere. For example, a five minute difference (300 seconds) would appear as follows in New York: echo date('z:H:i:s', 300); // 364:19:05:00 echo gmdate('z:H:i:s', 300); // 0:00:05:00 Thanks for the 'z', though, Alex. Up until now, I've always been dividing that out -- hadn't found it in the format list. :-)