I did check out the links you gave me - I understand the epoch number
now - but when I do the math to get the number of days difference I
get a huge number:
// get todays date
$now = time();
print "<br>now: $now";
$then = mktime(0,0,0,8,15,2003);
print "<br>then: $then";
$diff = $now - $then;
print "<br>diff: $diff";
$min = $diff * 60;
print "<br>min: $min";
$hours = $min * 60;
print "<br>hours: $hours";
$days = $hours * 24;
print "<br>days: $days";
$days is a huge number and there is not that many days diff between
time() and august 15, 2003 - what am I not understanding here?
On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 07:23:52 GMT, Blaine HIlton
<bl***************@verizon.net> wrote:
I would say first check out the 3 links that I gave:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php
http://www.befriend.com/code_gallery..._elapsed_time/
http://www.webcalc.net/calc/0529.php
If you read through there you will have it working. Once you have the
time from epoch for each date you subtract. That gives you the
seconds, then times by 60 for minutes, then 60 more for hours then 24
for days.