Calculating the difference

[Julius]

Hej dudes,

I need to calc the difference between two timestamps / dates ...

For example what i need to calculate:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.07 - 21:13:04

Difference: 1 day, 1hour

Very simple in php ..

but how do i calculate the difference between the following values:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.08 - 03:13:04

Does someone have a quick solution for this ?
Thanks ahead ...

[Erwin Moller]

Julius wrote:

Hej dudes,

I need to calc the difference between two timestamps / dates ...

For example what i need to calculate:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.07 - 21:13:04

Difference: 1 day, 1hour

Very simple in php ..

Very simple?

>
but how do i calculate the difference between the following values:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.08 - 03:13:04

Does someone have a quick solution for this ?
Thanks ahead ...

Why is the first simple and the second hard?

Anyway: go to www.php.net and look up: strtotime

Then use the difference in time to calculate the elapsed <whatever unit
suits you>.

Beware of timezone offset stuff. If it is not in the original date,
don't worry.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Bruno Barros]

On 1 Oct, 14:49, Julius <julius.ehrl... @googlemail.com wrote:

Hej dudes,

I need to calc the difference between two timestamps / dates ...

For example what i need to calculate:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.07 - 21:13:04

Difference: 1 day, 1hour

Very simple in php ..

but how do i calculate the difference between the following values:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.08 - 03:13:04

Does someone have a quick solution for this ?
Thanks ahead ...

First, http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php. Then
$later_time - $earlier_time.

$date1 = '2005-12-25 00:56:27 GMT' ; // Note the timezone
specification
$time1 = strtotime($date 1) ;
$date2 = '2005-12-27 05:56:27 GMT' ; // Note the timezone
specification
$time2 = strtotime($date 2) ;

$difference = $time2 - $time1;

print date('z \d\a\y\s\, H:i:s', $difference - 3600); // X days,
Hours:Minutes:S econds

I added - 3600 because it was showing 01:00:00 even when $difference
was 0. Probably DST thingie.

[Steve]

"Julius" <ju************ @googlemail.com wrote in message
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Hej dudes,

I need to calc the difference between two timestamps / dates ...

For example what i need to calculate:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.07 - 21:13:04

Difference: 1 day, 1hour

Very simple in php ..

but how do i calculate the difference between the following values:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.08 - 03:13:04

there is no 'difference'. you want to subtract those hours/minutes/seconds
from 2007-11-06...right?

$stamp = strtotime('2007-11-06');
$minus = explode(':', '20:13:04');
foreach ($minus as $increment =$value)
{
switch($increme nt)
{
case 0: $increment = ' hours'; break;
case 1: $increment = ' minutes'; break;
case 2: $increment = ' seconds'; break;
}
$stamp = strtotime('-' . $value . $increment, $stamp);
}

[Steve]

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"Julius" <ju************ @googlemail.com wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ n39g2000hsh.goo glegroups.com.. .

>Hej dudes,

I need to calc the difference between two timestamps / dates ...

For example what i need to calculate:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.07 - 21:13:04

Difference: 1 day, 1hour

Very simple in php ..

but how do i calculate the difference between the following values:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.08 - 03:13:04

sorry, didn't take you oddball date notation as a single date stamp but as
the calculation. anyway, bruno's works fine.

[Bruno Barros]

On 1 Oct, 15:24, "Steve" <no....@example .comwrote:

"Steve" <no....@example .comwrote in message

news:4k******** ***@newsfe06.lg a...

"Julius" <julius.ehrl... @googlemail.com wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ n39g2000hsh.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hej dudes,

I need to calc the difference between two timestamps / dates ...

For example what i need to calculate:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.07 - 21:13:04

Difference: 1 day, 1hour

Very simple in php ..

but how do i calculate the difference between the following values:

Date 1: 2007.11.06 - 20:13:04
Date 2: 2007.11.08 - 03:13:04

sorry, didn't take you oddball date notation as a single date stamp but as
the calculation. anyway, bruno's works fine.

It might work fine but I found out it only goes to 364 days of
distance, so here's a new code, completely fixed for that bug:

[PHP]
<?php
$date1 = '2005-12-25 00:56:27 GMT' ; // Note the timezone
specification
$date2 = '2005-12-27 05:56:27 GMT' ; // Note the timezone
specification
$time_fix = 3600;

$time1 = strtotime($date 1);
$time2 = strtotime($date 2) ;
$difference = $time2 - $time1;
$years = date('Y', $difference) - 1970;

print "$years years, ";
print date('z \d\a\y\s\, H:i:s', $difference - $time_fix); // X days,
Hours:Minutes:S econds
?>
[/PHP]

I removed the 1970 because that was the default value, so if the
distance is 0 years, then it will show up as 1970 - 1970 which is 0.

Also, in $time_fix, you can edit the number of seconds to remove from
the difference, so if you don't need to remove 3600 or whatever, you
can edit that easily.