Dates, hours and weekends

[xcuseme]

I have 2 timestamps;

1042148532
1042150166

Is there a simple way to detect the following;

1. How many days, hours or minutes are they apart?
2. Is there a weekend between the two dates?

Thanx for the help!

[jpmoriarty]

i can do your first one:

$seconds = $time2 - $time1;

echo "Seconds between times:".$seconds;
echo "Minutes between times:".($seconds / 60);
echo "Hours between times: ".($seconds / 3600);

etc
etc

i'm working on a work around for the second one... give me a few minutes

(NB that the timestamp is the number of seconds "since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00) ")

[jpmoriarty]

okay, the second one:

$numdays = (%time2 - $time1)/(60*60*24)

if ($numdays > 7)
  echo "It has been over a week, therefore there has to be a weekend inbetween"

else
{
// I havent tested this (I'm not on my server) but i think it will work

  $firstday = date("w",$time1);  // gets the day of the week for the first
  $secondday = date("w",$time2); // ditto second

  if ($secondday < $firstday)
    echo "It's not been 7 days, but there is a weekend inbetween";
  else
    echo "There is no weekend inbetween";
}

my only slight concern is using the time stamp in the date function, but i'm farily sure that works. let me know how you get on

[xcuseme]

Thanx, great you could put in the time, I appreciate it.
I'll let you know if it worked.

[xcuseme]

Thanx! Got it working!