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I have 2 unix time, one is todays date and other is expiration time.
What I want to achieve is calculate remaining time to expire the listing. In current case, it should show, 11 months -- hours -- minutes -- seconds I didn't find any good solution to calculate the difference. I doubt is it possible to calculate time difference using UNIX time system?
Thank you :-)
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This is what you're looking for: DateTime::diff
First create object with 1st date:
$date = new DateTime('2013-08-22 12:07:25');
Then use the diff method:
$diff = $date->diff(new DateTime('2014-07-25 15:46:06'));
Now if you print $diff variable, you will see the array containing values for hour, minute, day and so on.
Try using datetime::diff. Here's the example from the php.net documentation:
<?php
$datetime1 = date_create('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = date_create('2009-10-13');
$interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');
?>
It's easy to create a DateTime object using a timespamp. However, this solution requires PHP 5.3+.
It is most definitely possible. However, you'll run into problems with months, because there are different number of days in each month, so I'll just do days, hours, minutes, and seconds below.
$days=($expiration-$today)/(60*60*24);
$hours=(($expiration-$today)/(60*60))%24; //the modulus operator, gets a remainder
$minutes=(($expiration-$today)/(60))%(60*60);
$seconds=($expiration-$today)/60;
If you need months, you'll find it easier to use date_diff().
Use DateTime::diff
See the doc on http://www.php.net/manual/fr/datetime.diff.php
Use DateTime class:
Example:
$datetime1 = new DateTime();
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2014-07-25 15:46:06');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%M months, %H hours, %I minutes, and %S seconds remaining ');
Outputs:
11 months, 21 hours, 44 minutes, and 20 seconds remaining