PHP Date difference - php

Question

i've the following code:
$dStart = new DateTime('2013-03-15');
$dEnd = new DateTime('2013-04-01');
$dDiff = $dStart->diff($dEnd);
echo $dDiff->days;
I don't know why i'm getting 6015 as result.

Answer 1

Try like
$dStart = strtotime('2013-03-15');
$dEnd = strtotime('2013-04-01');
$dDiff = $dEnd - $dStart;
echo date('H:i:s',$dDiff);
or as per your code try with
$dDiff = $dStart->diff($dEnd);
$date->format('d',$dDiff);
echo $dDiff->days;
if you want diff in days try with this also
echo floor($dDiff/(60*60*24));

Answer 2

Try this-
$dStart = new DateTime('2013-03-15');
$dEnd = new DateTime('2013-04-01');
$dDiff = $dStart->diff($dEnd);
echo $dDiff->format('%d days')
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Answer 3

use this
$datetime1 = date_create('2013-03-15');
$datetime2 = date_create('2013-04-01');
$interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');

Answer 4

I prefer something like:
function days_diff($first_date, $second_date)
{
$later = new DateTime($second_date);
$then = new DateTime($first_date);
return $later->diff($then)->format('a');
}

Answer 5

I got the same 6015 days on PHP 5.3.0 and found the solution using var_dump().
My exact code is here:
$timestring = "Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:05:59 GMT";
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('D, d M Y G:i:s T', $timeString);
$nowdate = new DateTime("now");
$interval = $date->diff($nowdate);
Now if I do a var_dump($interval), the result is:
object(DateInterval)#5 (8) {
["y"]=>
int(0)
["m"]=>
int(0)
["d"]=>
int(0)
["h"]=>
int(19)
["i"]=>
int(45)
["s"]=>
int(33)
["invert"]=>
int(0)
["days"]=>
int(6015)
}
So the hours (h), minutes(i) and seconds (s) are set correctly but there is another property days which remains constant at 6015 and this is what others are getting as a bug. Well, I can't understand where it is getting this value. Again, as per the PHP manual for DateInterval at http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.dateinterval.php, I tried accessing them as properties of an object and things went absolutely fine.
Hence, I get exact result by:
echo (string) $interval->d." days ago";