converting date to minutes

[Justice]

OK, I have $x="200504161035"
that is 10:35 on 16 April 2005.

My questuion: what is the *shortest* piece of code to convert that variable
to minutes? I have a feeling there is a PHP function that should be able to
do it but I cannot find it. The long way takes 5 lines of code.

Regards
John

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Justice wrote:

OK, I have $x="200504161035"
that is 10:35 on 16 April 2005.

In minutes compared to what? The difference between that date and now?
JW

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:

In minutes compared to what? The difference between that date and now?

When that's your objective, you could do something like the following:

$ts = "200504161035";
$ts = strtotime(substr($ts, 0, 8) . " " . substr($ts, -4));
$minutes = round(($ts - time()) / 60);

Of course, you should substract $ts from time() when $ts is in the past.
JW

[Justice]

Thanks.
The function that had escaped me was STRTOTIME which I could have used on
the date part only.
Many thanks. 2 lines of code is ideal.
Regards
John
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Janwillem Borleffs wrote:

In minutes compared to what? The difference between that date and now?

When that's your objective, you could do something like the following:

$ts = "200504161035";
$ts = strtotime(substr($ts, 0, 8) . " " . substr($ts, -4));
$minutes = round(($ts - time()) / 60);

Of course, you should substract $ts from time() when $ts is in the past.
JW