Assume I have a funny video site that shows funny videos to users. Below every video, I want to have a statement that says "5 seconds ago", "31 minutes ago", "Yesterday", "2 days ago" based on a timestamp of the video and the current time.
The timestamp that I have is in the format: 2011-10-17 07:08:00.
I'm not too good with dates, but I'm guessing that I need to find the difference between the 2 date/time in seconds, then decide if its between 0sec & 60sec to display in seconds, or between 60sec & 3600sec to display in minutes, or between 3600sec & 3600x24sec to display in hours, between 3600x24sec & 3600x24x2sec to display yesterday, and so on... I believe I should be using strtotime() but I cant seem to find the current time as those solutions I found used new date() which does not seem to work!
How can I do this?
Btw, side question, when I insert 2011-10-17, 7:08PM EDT into a MySQL timestamp column, it gets converted to 2011-10-17 07:08:00 which is AM. How can I get it to be stored in the correct AM/PM?
You can use the DateTime functions of php.
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2011-10-17 07:08:00');
$datetime2 = new DateTime();
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');
From here on you can use some if-statements to output the time difference in another format (seconds, minutes, hours, month, etc.) depending on the actual time difference! The formats for the output are to find here
You can very easily use the DATEDIFF and TIMEDIFF functions of MySQL. Both together tell you exactly how much time has passed.
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I am using a timezone based script where there is deadline based on timezones. Say for example a deadline is on 7th July at 6PM for a person in IST timezone. The deadline should be 1:30 less than 6pm in Dubai as per their timezone.
I have already calculated the difference between the two timezone difference. I am stuck at deducting that calculated time from the deadline time.
I have saved the timezones in +5:40 +4:00 -4:00 this format instead of using php default ones.
Here's what I use to add and subtract time from a date.
First of all, I get the date from the database and then convert it to a DateTime object.
$date = new DateTime($date);
I use add and a DateInterval to add time. Here's an example to add hours.
$date->add(new DateInterval("PT{$hoursToAdd}H"));
And here's and example to subtract hours intead:
$date->sub(new DateInterval("PT{$hoursToSubstract}H"));
Check this out to know how to work with DateInterval and add/subtract different times: http://php.net/manual/en/class.dateinterval.php
Can you explain a little more specifically what you want to do?
You want to subtract when data already on some var inside your script or you want the SQL query needed ?
If so maybe you can use this answer ---> How to subtract 3 hours from a datetime in MySQL?
The last answer of this post maybe is the one that fit the most what you need :
Assuming you have some timezone issue and know source and destination timezone, you could convert it like so
SELECT
DATE_FORMAT(CONVERT_TZ(x.date_entered, 'UTC', 'Europe/Berlin'), '%Y-%m-%d') AS date
FROM
x
ORDER BY
date ASC;
So I am having a little trouble getting today's midnight date using the midnight time using the time() function.
It is a little confusing for me when I explain to my peers on the timestamp I want. What I need is, if today is wed-06-Aug-2014 at 9:00pm , then I want the time at wed-06-Aug-2014 00:00.
Any help?
Just use relative date and time formats:
echo date('D-d-M-Y H:i', strtotime('midnight'));
Demo
I'm having a table as follows to store future date,
email date
abc#gmail.com 8/10/2014
and I want to do is to find the difference between the above date and the sever date.
I'm using date("m/d/Y") to get the current date.
If date("m/d/Y") = 07/20/2014, then I need the answer as 21.
Please help me find the difference between those days using PHP & MySQL, or suggest a better way to find the difference in days.
You can convert date to timestamp then calculate the days:
(int)(strtotime('8/10/2014')-strtotime('07/20/2014'))/60/60/24
The easiest way would be to store your dates as timestamps, then you could subtract the current timestamp with the one you've saved in a database.
The PHP function time() returns the current timestamp – that is the number of seconds since the 1st of January 1970. You can then format a timestamp $stamp to your liking with date('m/d/Y', $stamp), for example.
Aside from facilitating arithmetic operations with dates, you can display more or less information with timestamps by formatting them with date(), as well as show different formats (July 13, 2014 vs. 07/13/2014). If you save a date as a string, e.g. "8/10/2014", it will be very complicated for you to change the format, and it won't be possible to get the correct time, for example.
Finding how long ago in days a timestamp $stamp was to the current time is very easy:
$now = time();
$days = ($stamp - $now) / (24*3600);
Use round() to get a full number if desired (e.g. 7.2309 would simply become 7).
I'd personally do it using DateTime:
Select your date out into a variable. In this instance We'll call it $DBDate
$DBDateObj = DateTime::createFromFormat('j/m/Y', $DBDate);
$TodayDateObj = new DateTime();
$interval = $TodayDateObj->diff($DBDateObj);
$daysDiff = $interval->days;
In $daysDiff you should now have the difference in days.
I wish to calculate the difference b/w 2 times in min:sec format . so is my approch correct
date("i:s",(strtotime($User['end_time']) - strtotime($User['start_time'])));
You may get the problems with timezones on some servers.
A bettter way would be using UTC timezone for calculation:
$date = new DateTime('', new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
$date->setTimestamp(strtotime($User['end_time']) - strtotime($User['start_time']));
echo $date->format('i:s');
Another thing, if they are different in exactly 1 hour, the result will be 00:00
strtotime($User['end_time']) - strtotime($User['start_time']) gives you the difference in seconds. Then you pass it to date, so you get the minute and second of the date whose unix timestamp is that.
Basically, I have a time stamp that looks like 2010-12-15 16:14:06. If the time stamp is seconds old I want it transform it into "N Seconds Old." If the time stamp is minutes old, I want it to transform it into "N Minutes Old." etc. Is there any built in PHP functions that will do this?
if you're running 5.3 you can use DateTime::diff to do it. It returns a DateInterval object which contains the info you'll want.
As mentioned by others, you need to have some "starting point" to measure against. There are a number of ways to turn a time stamp such as 2010-12-15 16:14:06 into a PHP timestamp (seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00). If that's your "starting point", simply subtract it from the current time or whatever to get the difference in seconds. If less than a certain amount (say, 60), give that as "N seconds ago". If greater, divide by 60 to get minutes ago, or 3600 to get hours ago, etc.).