I have a code for days interval
<?php
$datetime1 = new DateTime(); // Today's Date/Time
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2012-07-17 15:30:17');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%D days %H hours %I minutes ago');
?>
How can I include time from database
example
<?php echo htmlentities($row['date']); ?>
I know you're using PHP, but if you want this on the front end you could consider moment.js: https://momentjs.com/ it handles human-like date outputs.''
Edit: after further searching, this is exactly what you're looking for momentPHP: https://github.com/fightbulc/moment.php
Here is my code : current time - 14.32
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2015-10-12 14:34:00');
$datetime2 = new DateTime();
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->i.' minutes<br>';
The output : 35 Minutes
Why is the minutes is showing 35 instead of 2 minutes?
set the time zone,
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Kolkata");
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2015-10-12 14:34:00');
$datetime2 = new DateTime();
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->i.' minutes<br>';// for current time, difference is 10 minutes.
I am trying to take the differences of datetimes in php as follows:
$datetime1 = new DateTime();
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2015-09-23 08:09:50');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
$elapsed = $interval->format('%S');
echo $elapsed;
Here I am getting the difference in seconds.
I need the total time difference in seconds.
$difference = abs($datetime1->getTimestamp() - $datetime2->getTimestamp());
I have a datetime field in my database that contains the following information:
2012-05-03 17:34:01
I want to check the difference between the datetime field and now:
$now = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
I am attempting to work out how many days have passed between now and the time written to the database field.
How can I achieve this?
Here is the answer :)
$now = new DateTime();
$date = new DateTime("2012-05-03 17:34:01");
echo $date->diff($now)->format("%d days, %h hours and %i minutes");
$diff = abs(strtotime($date2) - strtotime($date1));
date_diff:
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = new DateTime("now");
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');
I want to get the absolute days away a datetime is from today. For example, i would like to know if a date is 2 days away, or 78 days away, or even 5,239 days away (not likely, but you get the idea). I am using an MS SQL database which is returning datetimes where the time components are all 00:00:00.
date_diff returns relative values that you then have to do some crazy math with to get absolute dates do to calculating months, years, etc.
Also, i am having issues getting the date component only of today's date in php.
Edit:
Thanks to mr. w. This is what i ended up with:
$date = $row['AirdateDateTime'];
$today = date_create(date("Y-m-d"));
$away = date_diff($today, $date);
$d = $away->format("%R%a");
The date_create() part was the part i was originally missing to convert to an actual datetime. Also, the format needs to be %R%a. Using %R%d only works for dates in this month.
The date_diff() function (really, the DateTime::diff() method) is what you want, and it's actually not hard. In fact, I think the example in the docs is exactly what you're after:
<?php
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2009-10-13');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%d days');
?>
or
<?php
$datetime1 = date_create('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = date_create('2009-10-13');
$interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%d days');
?>
What's returned is a DateInterval object, which you can format any way you want with its format() method. Above, it's being formatted to days, but you have a ton of options; see http://us.php.net/manual/en/dateinterval.format.php.
You shouldn't need to do any math yourself.
[EDIT - forgot this part]
As for getting the date component of today's date, you can do something like this:
<?php
echo date('Y-m-d');
?>
See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php.
Try this
$date1 = new DateTime('2012-10-28 00:00:00',new DateTimeZone('Europe/London'));
$date2 = new DateTime('2012-10-28 03:00:00',new DateTimeZone('Europe/London'));
$interval = date_diff($date1, $date2);
$format = '%y years, %m months, %d days, %h hours, %i minutes, %s seconds, %a total days %R';
echo $interval->format($format);
if want to change the format try this
http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_date.asp
It's probably easiest to convert to unix timestamps (seconds since 1970) and then get the difference.
strtotime() and time() are your friends.
An alternative to what has already been suggested is the DateTime library:
$today = date("Y-m-d");
$today = new DateTime($today);
$future = new DateTime('2010-10-25');
$interval = $today->diff($future);
echo $interval->format('%d days away'); //outputs 17 days away
It sounds like what you want is
<?php
$yourDate = '2010-10-05';
echo ciel((strtotime($yourDate) - time()) / 60 / 60 / 24);