Calculating time "In Between"

[neox_blueline]

Alright, I have 2 times (in Time(); form), one of which is August 22, 2004, and one is the current Time(), im converting the date of "August 22, 2004" into Time() form using strtotime(), this works, and the Time() - strtotime() returns the correct value (the difference between the 2), however it seems that everytime I refresh the page, $duration_between returns 01:17:01:<seconds>, but the 01:07:01 never changes. Seems to me the minutes value should be decreasing. Seconds goes from 59 downward to 0 and then starts back at 59, without 01:07:01 ever changing. I have no idea what the problem is, any ideas?

//$end: August 22, 2004
$_explode=explode(" ", str_replace(",", "", $end));
//$str: 22 August 2004
$str="" .$_explode[1]. " " .$_explode[0]. " " .$_explode[2]. "";
$duration_between=date("d:H:i:s",strtotime($str) - Time());

[neox_blueline]

Nevermind, I fixed it, and updated the post.

[k9sar72]

Originally posted by neox_blueline
Alright, I have 2 times (in Time(); form), one of which is August 22, 2004, and one is the current Time(), im converting the date of "August 22, 2004" into Time() form using strtotime(), this works, and the Time() - strtotime() returns the correct value (the difference between the 2), however it seems that everytime I refresh the page, $duration_between returns 01:17:01:<seconds>, but the 01:07:01 never changes. Seems to me the minutes value should be decreasing. Seconds goes from 59 downward to 0 and then starts back at 59, without 01:07:01 ever changing. I have no idea what the problem is, any ideas?

//$end: August 22, 2004
$_explode=explode(" ", str_replace(",", "", $end));
//$str: 22 August 2004
$str="" .$_explode[1]. " " .$_explode[0]. " " .$_explode[2]. "";
$duration_between=date("d:H:i:s",strtotime($str) - Time());

[/B]

I think it has something to do with your "date" formatting in $difference_between. strftime(%d:%H:%M:%S) seemed to work for me. (used the code below. $diff updates while $difference_between doesn't) Not sure why though.

<?php
$end = "August 22, 2004";
$_explode=explode(" ", str_replace(",", "", $end));
$str = "22 August 2004";
$str="" .$_explode[1]. " " .$_explode[0]. " " .$_explode[2]. "";
$duration_between=date("d:H:m:s",strtotime($str) - time());
$diff = strftime("%d%H%M%S", strtotime($str) - time());
echo "$diff";
echo "<br>";
echo strtotime($str);
echo "<BR>";
echo time();
echo "<br>";
echo "$duration_between";
echo "<br>";
echo strtotime($duration_beetween);
?>

[neox_blueline]

I thought I had fixed it before, but now I login to that page and I see 32 days, when it should be < 1 day, I see what you mean.. its weird, if I happen to fix it ill post how.

[Weedpacket]

(First of all, you don't need the exploding business to convert $end into $str; strtotime() will quite happily take dates in the form "August 22, 2004". That will simplify things a bit 🙂).

Your main problem might be that you're trying to use a duration as a timestamp. They're not the same thing: a timestamp of 21243 does not mean "a duration of 21243 seconds" (i.e. 1 day, 18 hours, 54 minutes, 3 seconds), but "21343 seconds since midnight January 1, 1970" (i.e., 6:54:12pm, January 1, 1970); something quite different (for one thing, the date you get from "d" is going to be 1 - because it's the first day of January - not 0.

The usual method of separating a duration into parts is to do the maths oneself. Something like:

$sec  = intval($duration);
$min  = (int)floor($sec / 60);
$hour = (int)floor($min / 60);
$day  = (int)floor($hour / 24);

$seconds = $sec % 60;
$minutes = $min % 60;
$hours   = $hour % 24;
$days    = $day;