note 51030 added to language.operators.arithmetic

Most of the mail services/bulletin boards display the time when the message was posted or the mail was received in the form - 3 days ago, 15 mins ago etc. Here is a nifty little PHP function which does the same by basically combining the usage of "/" and "%" operators. You need to pass the unix timestamp of the time when the message was posted to the function. function intervalCalc($postedtime) { $now = time(); $interval_secs = $now - $postedtime; if ($interval_secs > 86400) { $interval = (($interval_secs - ($interval_secs%86400))/86400); $interval.= " days ago"; } elseif ($interval_secs > 3600) { $interval = ($interval_secs - ($interval_secs%3600)/3600); $interval.= " hours ago"; } elseif ($interval_secs > 60) { $interval = ($interval_secs - ($interval_secs%60)/60); $interval.= " minutes ago"; } return $interval; } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.arithmetic.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+51030 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51030&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51030&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51030&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51030&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51030&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+51030&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php