I found this post that shows how to get the difference in hours between two dates.
The dates are: 2017-07-03 13:55:20 AND 2017-07-04 21:17:44
When I tried using this code it gives me wrong value:
$date1 = date_create('2017-07-03 13:55:20');
$date2 = date_create('2017-07-04 21:17:44');
$diff = date_diff($date1,$date2);
$hour = $diff->h;
returns 8 hours //incorrect
But this one gives me the correct value:
$hourdiff = round((strtotime('2017-07-03 13:55:20') - strtotime('2017-07-04 21:17:44'))/3600);
returns 31 hours //correct
You have to go this way:
<?php
$date1 = date_create('2017-07-03 13:55:20');
$date2 = date_create('2017-07-04 21:17:44');
$diff = date_diff($date1,$date2);
$hour = ($diff->d * 24) + $diff->h;
echo $hour;
demo: http://ideone.com/7SBfHn
The date_diff function gives you the difference as follow:
y m d h m s
-----------------------------
Date1: 2017-07-03 13:55:20
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Diff: 0 0 1 8 0 24
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Date2: 2017-07-04 21:17:44
you can leverage 'format' function of object returned by date_diff. (http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-diff.php)
Here is my solution leveraging format function-
$date1 = date_create('2017-07-03 13:00:00');
$date2 = date_create('2017-07-04 21:17:44');
$diff = date_diff($date1,$date2);
$hour =( $diff->format('%d')*24 + $diff->format('%h')) . '.' . $diff->format('%i') . 'mins';
echo $hour; // output = '32.17mins'
use this,
$d1= new DateTime("2017-07-03 13:55:20");
$d2= new DateTime("2017-07-04 21:17:44");
$interval= $d1->diff($d2);
echo ($interval->days * 24) + $interval->h;