datetime help

[slevytam]

Hello,

Could someone help me out with datetime fields.

I have a start time and a finish time and am looking to get the difference.

ie
start 2003-05-03 04:10:47
finish 2003-05-05 05:07:39
I am looking to get this as a return
??d ??h ??m ??s till end.

Thanks in advance,

--SL

ps also would be interested in finding out if a datetime has passed. ie if finish is 2003-05-05 05:07:39 has the finish passed therefore race over.

[ir4z0r]

have a look at strtotime()
this function returns a timestamp to the coressponding timestring,
hence get the difference between those two timestamps, which
is now the diff in seconds, divide the rest (% modulo may be of help)
to get days, hours ...

$diff_in_sec = abs(strtotime($time1)-strtotime($time2));
...

to find out if a date has passed, compare its timestamp with the
one time() returns, if the 2st one is bigger, it's still to come

if (strtotime($time) < time()) echo "passed";
else echo "still 2come";

[slevytam]

Thanks this looks great. I'll give it a go...

--SL