use the date() command (http://www.php.net/date) - using $timeDiff as the datestamp.
HTH Danny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > 020e01c1e7a1$70098eb0$0200a8c0@dannys">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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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? > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
