How to get time difference in minutes in PHP

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How to calculate minute difference between two date-times in PHP

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lt  php  date1   time    sleep 2000    date2   time     mins     date2 -  date1    60  echo  mins    gt

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I think this will help you   function calculate time span  date        seconds    strtotime date  Y-m-d H i s    - strtotime  date             months   floor  seconds    3600 24 30             day   floor  seconds    3600 24             hours   floor  seconds   3600            mins   floor   seconds -   hours 3600     60            secs   floor  seconds   60            if  seconds  lt  60               time    secs   seconds ago           else if  seconds  lt  60 60                time    mins   min ago           else if  seconds  lt  24 60 60               time    hours   hours ago           else if  seconds  lt  24 60 60               time    day   day ago           else              time    months   month ago            return  time

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Here is the answer    to time   strtotime  2008-12-13 10 42 00     from time   strtotime  2008-12-13 10 21 00    echo round abs  to time -  from time    60 2     minute

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My solution to find the difference between two dates is here  With this function you can find differences like seconds  minutes  hours  days  years and months   function alihan diff dates  date   null   diff    minutes       start date   new DateTime  date     since start    start date- gt diff new DateTime  date  Y-m-d H i s          date now  print r  since start    switch   diff        case  seconds           return  since start- gt s          break      case  minutes           return  since start- gt i          break      case  hours           return  since start- gt h          break      case  days           return  since start- gt d          break            default            code            break         You can develop this function  I tested and works for me  DateInterval object output is here       DateInterval Object    y    gt  0  m    gt  0  d    gt  0  h    gt  0  i    gt  5  s    gt  13  f    gt  0  weekday    gt  0  weekday behavior    gt  0  first last day of    gt  0  invert    gt  0  days    gt  0  special type    gt  0  special amount    gt  0  have weekday relative    gt  0  have special relative    gt  0         Function Usage    date   the past date   diff   type eg   minutes    days    seconds    diff mins   alihan diff dates  2019-03-24 13 24 19    minutes      Good Luck

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This is how I displayed  quot xx times ago quot  in php  gt  5 2    here is more info on DateTime object   Usage   pubDate    row  rssfeed    pubDates       e g  this could be like  Sun  10 Nov 2013 14 26 00 GMT   diff   ago  pubDate         output  23 hrs ago     Return the value of time different in  quot xx times ago quot  format function ago  timestamp          today   new DateTime date  y-m-d h i s         2         thatDay   new DateTime  Sun  10 Nov 2013 14 26 00 GMT         thatDay   new DateTime  timestamp        dt    today- gt diff  thatDay        if   dt- gt y  gt  0            number    dt- gt y           unit    quot year quot         else if   dt- gt m  gt  0             number    dt- gt m           unit    quot month quot         else if   dt- gt d  gt  0             number    dt- gt d           unit    quot day quot         else if   dt- gt h  gt  0             number    dt- gt h           unit    quot hour quot         else if   dt- gt i  gt  0             number    dt- gt i           unit    quot minute quot         else if   dt- gt s  gt  0             number    dt- gt s           unit    quot second quot                   unit     number   gt  1    quot s quot     quot  quot          ret    number  quot   quot   unit  quot   quot   quot ago quot       return  ret

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A more universal version that returns result in days  hours  minutes or seconds including fractions decimals   function DateDiffInterval  sDate1   sDate2   sUnit  H       subtract  sDate2- sDate1 and return the difference in  sUnit  Days Hours Minutes Seconds       nInterval   strtotime  sDate2  - strtotime  sDate1       if   sUnit   D        days          nInterval    nInterval 60 60 24        else if   sUnit   H        hours          nInterval    nInterval 60 60        else if   sUnit   M        minutes          nInterval    nInterval 60        else if   sUnit   S        seconds           return  nInterval      DateDiffInterval

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lt  php  date1   time    sleep 2000    date2   time     mins     date2 -  date1    60  echo  mins    gt

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I wrote this function for one my blog site difference between a past date and server s date   It will give you an output like this  quot 49 seconds ago quot    quot 20 minutes ago quot    quot 21 hours ago quot  and so on I have used a function that would get me the difference between the date passed and the server s date   lt  php    Code written by purpledesign in Jan 2014 function dateDiff  date         mydate  date  quot Y-m-d H i s quot         theDiff  quot  quot         echo  mydate   2014-06-06 21 35 55      datetime1   date create  date        datetime2   date create  mydate        interval   date diff  datetime1   datetime2         echo  interval- gt format   s Seconds  i Minutes  h Hours  d days  m Months  y Year    Ago    quot  lt br gt  quot        min  interval- gt format   i         sec  interval- gt format   s         hour  interval- gt format   h         mon  interval- gt format   m         day  interval- gt format   d         year  interval- gt format   y        if  interval- gt format   i h d m y     quot 00000 quot               echo  interval- gt format   i h d m y    quot  lt br gt  quot           return  sec  quot  Seconds quot         else if  interval- gt format   h d m y     quot 0000 quot            return  min  quot  Minutes quot         else if  interval- gt format   d m y     quot 000 quot            return  hour  quot  Hours quot         else if  interval- gt format   m y     quot 00 quot            return  day  quot  Days quot         else if  interval- gt format   y     quot 0 quot            return  mon  quot  Months quot         else          return  year  quot  Years quot                 gt   Save it as a file suppose  quot date php quot   Call the function from another page like this  lt  php  require  date php      mydate  2014-11-14 21 35 55    echo  quot The Difference between the server s date and  mydate is  lt br gt   quot    echo dateDiff  mydate     gt   Of course you can modify the function to pass two values

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Here is the answer    to time   strtotime  2008-12-13 10 42 00     from time   strtotime  2008-12-13 10 21 00    echo round abs  to time -  from time    60 2     minute

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Subtract the past most one from the future most one and divide by 60    Times are done in Unix format so they re just a big number showing the number of seconds from January 1  1970  00 00 00 GMT

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My solution to find the difference between two dates is here  With this function you can find differences like seconds  minutes  hours  days  years and months   function alihan diff dates  date   null   diff    minutes       start date   new DateTime  date     since start    start date- gt diff new DateTime  date  Y-m-d H i s          date now  print r  since start    switch   diff        case  seconds           return  since start- gt s          break      case  minutes           return  since start- gt i          break      case  hours           return  since start- gt h          break      case  days           return  since start- gt d          break            default            code            break         You can develop this function  I tested and works for me  DateInterval object output is here       DateInterval Object    y    gt  0  m    gt  0  d    gt  0  h    gt  0  i    gt  5  s    gt  13  f    gt  0  weekday    gt  0  weekday behavior    gt  0  first last day of    gt  0  invert    gt  0  days    gt  0  special type    gt  0  special amount    gt  0  have weekday relative    gt  0  have special relative    gt  0         Function Usage    date   the past date   diff   type eg   minutes    days    seconds    diff mins   alihan diff dates  2019-03-24 13 24 19    minutes      Good Luck

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function date getFullTimeDifference   start   end      uts  start             strtotime   start             uts  end               strtotime   end            if   uts  start     -1  amp  amp   uts  end     -1                         if   uts  end    gt    uts  start                                    diff          uts  end   -  uts  start                    if   years intval  floor  diff 31104000                           diff    diff   31104000                  if   months intval  floor  diff 2592000                           diff    diff   2592000                  if   days intval  floor  diff 86400                           diff    diff   86400                  if   hours intval  floor  diff 3600                           diff    diff   3600                  if   minutes intval  floor  diff 60                           diff    diff   60                   diff         intval   diff                    return  array  years   gt  years  months   gt  months  days   gt  days   hours   gt  hours   minutes   gt  minutes   seconds   gt  diff                               else                               echo  Ending date time is earlier than the start date time                                   else                       echo  Invalid date time data detected

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I found so many solution but I never got correct solution  But i have created some code to find minutes please check it    lt  php     time1    23 58      time2    01 00      time1   explode      time1      time2   explode      time2      hours1    time1 0      hours2    time2 0      mins1    time1 1      mins2    time2 1      hours    hours2 -  hours1     mins   0    if  hours  lt  0           hours   24    hours        if  mins2  gt    mins1             mins    mins2 -  mins1            else          mins     mins2   60  -  mins1         hours--            if  mins  lt  9               mins   str pad  mins  2   0   STR PAD LEFT             if  hours  lt  9               hours  str pad  hours  2   0   STR PAD LEFT         echo  hours      mins    gt    It gives output in hours and minutes for example 01 hour 02 minutes like 01 02

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Subtract the past most one from the future most one and divide by 60    Times are done in Unix format so they re just a big number showing the number of seconds from January 1  1970  00 00 00 GMT

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Subtract the times and divide by 60    Here is an example which calculate elapsed time from 2019 02 01 10 23 45 in minutes    diff time  strtotime date  Y m d H i s   -strtotime  2019 02 01 10 23 45    60

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date1 date create  quot 2020-03-15 quot     date2 date create  quot 2020-12-12 quot     diff date diff  date1  date2   echo  diff- gt format  quot  R a days quot     For detailed format specifiers  visit the link

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Here is the answer    to time   strtotime  2008-12-13 10 42 00     from time   strtotime  2008-12-13 10 21 00    echo round abs  to time -  from time    60 2     minute

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It worked on my programs  i am using date diff  you can check date diff manual on here    start   date create  2015-01-26 12 01 00     end   date create  2015-01-26 13 15 00     diff date diff  end  start   print r  diff     You get results what do you want

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lt  php  date1   time    sleep 2000    date2   time     mins     date2 -  date1    60  echo  mins    gt

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Here is the answer    to time   strtotime  2008-12-13 10 42 00     from time   strtotime  2008-12-13 10 21 00    echo round abs  to time -  from time    60 2     minute

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It worked on my programs  i am using date diff  you can check date diff manual on here    start   date create  2015-01-26 12 01 00     end   date create  2015-01-26 13 15 00     diff date diff  end  start   print r  diff     You get results what do you want

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function date getFullTimeDifference   start   end      uts  start             strtotime   start             uts  end               strtotime   end            if   uts  start     -1  amp  amp   uts  end     -1                         if   uts  end    gt    uts  start                                    diff          uts  end   -  uts  start                    if   years intval  floor  diff 31104000                           diff    diff   31104000                  if   months intval  floor  diff 2592000                           diff    diff   2592000                  if   days intval  floor  diff 86400                           diff    diff   86400                  if   hours intval  floor  diff 3600                           diff    diff   3600                  if   minutes intval  floor  diff 60                           diff    diff   60                   diff         intval   diff                    return  array  years   gt  years  months   gt  months  days   gt  days   hours   gt  hours   minutes   gt  minutes   seconds   gt  diff                               else                               echo  Ending date time is earlier than the start date time                                   else                       echo  Invalid date time data detected

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I wrote this function for one my blog site difference between a past date and server s date   It will give you an output like this  quot 49 seconds ago quot    quot 20 minutes ago quot    quot 21 hours ago quot  and so on I have used a function that would get me the difference between the date passed and the server s date   lt  php    Code written by purpledesign in Jan 2014 function dateDiff  date         mydate  date  quot Y-m-d H i s quot         theDiff  quot  quot         echo  mydate   2014-06-06 21 35 55      datetime1   date create  date        datetime2   date create  mydate        interval   date diff  datetime1   datetime2         echo  interval- gt format   s Seconds  i Minutes  h Hours  d days  m Months  y Year    Ago    quot  lt br gt  quot        min  interval- gt format   i         sec  interval- gt format   s         hour  interval- gt format   h         mon  interval- gt format   m         day  interval- gt format   d         year  interval- gt format   y        if  interval- gt format   i h d m y     quot 00000 quot               echo  interval- gt format   i h d m y    quot  lt br gt  quot           return  sec  quot  Seconds quot         else if  interval- gt format   h d m y     quot 0000 quot            return  min  quot  Minutes quot         else if  interval- gt format   d m y     quot 000 quot            return  hour  quot  Hours quot         else if  interval- gt format   m y     quot 00 quot            return  day  quot  Days quot         else if  interval- gt format   y     quot 0 quot            return  mon  quot  Months quot         else          return  year  quot  Years quot                 gt   Save it as a file suppose  quot date php quot   Call the function from another page like this  lt  php  require  date php      mydate  2014-11-14 21 35 55    echo  quot The Difference between the server s date and  mydate is  lt br gt   quot    echo dateDiff  mydate     gt   Of course you can modify the function to pass two values

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The answers above are for older versions of PHP  Use the DateTime class to do any date calculations now that PHP 5 3 is the norm  Eg    start date   new DateTime  2007-09-01 04 10 58     since start    start date- gt diff new DateTime  2012-09-11 10 25 00     echo  since start- gt days   days total lt br gt    echo  since start- gt y   years lt br gt    echo  since start- gt m   months lt br gt    echo  since start- gt d   days lt br gt    echo  since start- gt h   hours lt br gt    echo  since start- gt i   minutes lt br gt    echo  since start- gt s   seconds lt br gt       since start is a DateInterval object  Note that the days property is available  because we used the diff method of the DateTime class to generate the DateInterval object    The above code will output   1837 days total5 years0 months10 days6 hours14 minutes2 seconds  To get the total number of minutes    minutes    since start- gt days   24   60   minutes     since start- gt h   60   minutes     since start- gt i  echo  minutes   minutes     This will output   2645654 minutes  Which is the actual number of minutes that has passed between the two dates  The DateTime class will take daylight saving  depending on timezone  into account where the  old way  won t  Read the manual about Date and Time http   www php net manual en book datetime php

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This is how I displayed  quot xx times ago quot  in php  gt  5 2    here is more info on DateTime object   Usage   pubDate    row  rssfeed    pubDates       e g  this could be like  Sun  10 Nov 2013 14 26 00 GMT   diff   ago  pubDate         output  23 hrs ago     Return the value of time different in  quot xx times ago quot  format function ago  timestamp          today   new DateTime date  y-m-d h i s         2         thatDay   new DateTime  Sun  10 Nov 2013 14 26 00 GMT         thatDay   new DateTime  timestamp        dt    today- gt diff  thatDay        if   dt- gt y  gt  0            number    dt- gt y           unit    quot year quot         else if   dt- gt m  gt  0             number    dt- gt m           unit    quot month quot         else if   dt- gt d  gt  0             number    dt- gt d           unit    quot day quot         else if   dt- gt h  gt  0             number    dt- gt h           unit    quot hour quot         else if   dt- gt i  gt  0             number    dt- gt i           unit    quot minute quot         else if   dt- gt s  gt  0             number    dt- gt s           unit    quot second quot                   unit     number   gt  1    quot s quot     quot  quot          ret    number  quot   quot   unit  quot   quot   quot ago quot       return  ret

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Subtract the past most one from the future most one and divide by 60    Times are done in Unix format so they re just a big number showing the number of seconds from January 1  1970  00 00 00 GMT

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The answers above are for older versions of PHP  Use the DateTime class to do any date calculations now that PHP 5 3 is the norm  Eg    start date   new DateTime  2007-09-01 04 10 58     since start    start date- gt diff new DateTime  2012-09-11 10 25 00     echo  since start- gt days   days total lt br gt    echo  since start- gt y   years lt br gt    echo  since start- gt m   months lt br gt    echo  since start- gt d   days lt br gt    echo  since start- gt h   hours lt br gt    echo  since start- gt i   minutes lt br gt    echo  since start- gt s   seconds lt br gt       since start is a DateInterval object  Note that the days property is available  because we used the diff method of the DateTime class to generate the DateInterval object    The above code will output   1837 days total5 years0 months10 days6 hours14 minutes2 seconds  To get the total number of minutes    minutes    since start- gt days   24   60   minutes     since start- gt h   60   minutes     since start- gt i  echo  minutes   minutes     This will output   2645654 minutes  Which is the actual number of minutes that has passed between the two dates  The DateTime class will take daylight saving  depending on timezone  into account where the  old way  won t  Read the manual about Date and Time http   www php net manual en book datetime php

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Another simple way to calculate the difference in minutes  Please note this is a sample for calculating within a 1-year range  for more details click here  origin   new DateTime  2021-02-10 09 46 32     target   new DateTime  2021-02-11 09 46 32     interval    origin- gt diff  target   echo    interval- gt format   d   24     interval- gt format   h    60    1440  difference in minutes

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This will help      function get time  date  nosuffix           datetime   new DateTime  date        interval   date create  now  - gt diff   datetime        if empty  nosuffix   suffix      interval- gt invert     ago              else  suffix           return  interval- gt y      if  interval- gt y  gt  1           count   date VDATE  strtotime  date     text            elseif  interval- gt m  gt  1       count   date  M d   strtotime  date     text            elseif  interval- gt d  gt  1       count    interval- gt d   text    day         elseif  interval- gt h  gt  1       count    interval- gt h   text    hour        elseif  interval- gt i  gt  1       count    interval- gt i   text    minute        elseif  interval- gt s   0       count    Just Now    text            else                          count    interval- gt s   text    second        if empty  text   return   lt i class  fa fa-clock-o  gt  lt  i gt     count      return   lt i class  fa fa-clock-o  gt  lt  i gt     count    count   1      text        text s         suffix

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I found so many solution but I never got correct solution  But i have created some code to find minutes please check it    lt  php     time1    23 58      time2    01 00      time1   explode      time1      time2   explode      time2      hours1    time1 0      hours2    time2 0      mins1    time1 1      mins2    time2 1      hours    hours2 -  hours1     mins   0    if  hours  lt  0           hours   24    hours        if  mins2  gt    mins1             mins    mins2 -  mins1            else          mins     mins2   60  -  mins1         hours--            if  mins  lt  9               mins   str pad  mins  2   0   STR PAD LEFT             if  hours  lt  9               hours  str pad  hours  2   0   STR PAD LEFT         echo  hours      mins    gt    It gives output in hours and minutes for example 01 hour 02 minutes like 01 02

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another way with timezone       start date   new DateTime  2013-12-24 06 00 00  new DateTimeZone  Pacific Nauru      end date   new DateTime  2013-12-24 06 45 00   new DateTimeZone  Pacific Nauru      interval    start date- gt diff  end date    hours      interval- gt format   h      minutes    interval- gt format   i    echo   Diff  in minutes is      hours   60    minutes

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Subtract the times and divide by 60    Here is an example which calculate elapsed time from 2019 02 01 10 23 45 in minutes    diff time  strtotime date  Y m d H i s   -strtotime  2019 02 01 10 23 45    60

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I think this will help you   function calculate time span  date        seconds    strtotime date  Y-m-d H i s    - strtotime  date             months   floor  seconds    3600 24 30             day   floor  seconds    3600 24             hours   floor  seconds   3600            mins   floor   seconds -   hours 3600     60            secs   floor  seconds   60            if  seconds  lt  60               time    secs   seconds ago           else if  seconds  lt  60 60                time    mins   min ago           else if  seconds  lt  24 60 60               time    hours   hours ago           else if  seconds  lt  24 60 60               time    day   day ago           else              time    months   month ago            return  time

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lt  php  start   strtotime  12 01 00     end   strtotime  13 16 00     mins     end -  start    60  echo  mins    gt    Output   75

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Subtract the past most one from the future most one and divide by 60    Times are done in Unix format so they re just a big number showing the number of seconds from January 1  1970  00 00 00 GMT

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another way with timezone       start date   new DateTime  2013-12-24 06 00 00  new DateTimeZone  Pacific Nauru      end date   new DateTime  2013-12-24 06 45 00   new DateTimeZone  Pacific Nauru      interval    start date- gt diff  end date    hours      interval- gt format   h      minutes    interval- gt format   i    echo   Diff  in minutes is      hours   60    minutes

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A more universal version that returns result in days  hours  minutes or seconds including fractions decimals   function DateDiffInterval  sDate1   sDate2   sUnit  H       subtract  sDate2- sDate1 and return the difference in  sUnit  Days Hours Minutes Seconds       nInterval   strtotime  sDate2  - strtotime  sDate1       if   sUnit   D        days          nInterval    nInterval 60 60 24        else if   sUnit   H        hours          nInterval    nInterval 60 60        else if   sUnit   M        minutes          nInterval    nInterval 60        else if   sUnit   S        seconds           return  nInterval      DateDiffInterval

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lt  php  date1   time    sleep 2000    date2   time     mins     date2 -  date1    60  echo  mins    gt

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Another simple way to calculate the difference in minutes  Please note this is a sample for calculating within a 1-year range  for more details click here  origin   new DateTime  2021-02-10 09 46 32     target   new DateTime  2021-02-11 09 46 32     interval    origin- gt diff  target   echo    interval- gt format   d   24     interval- gt format   h    60    1440  difference in minutes

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date1 date create  quot 2020-03-15 quot     date2 date create  quot 2020-12-12 quot     diff date diff  date1  date2   echo  diff- gt format  quot  R a days quot     For detailed format specifiers  visit the link

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This will help      function get time  date  nosuffix           datetime   new DateTime  date        interval   date create  now  - gt diff   datetime        if empty  nosuffix   suffix      interval- gt invert     ago              else  suffix           return  interval- gt y      if  interval- gt y  gt  1           count   date VDATE  strtotime  date     text            elseif  interval- gt m  gt  1       count   date  M d   strtotime  date     text            elseif  interval- gt d  gt  1       count    interval- gt d   text    day         elseif  interval- gt h  gt  1       count    interval- gt h   text    hour        elseif  interval- gt i  gt  1       count    interval- gt i   text    minute        elseif  interval- gt s   0       count    Just Now    text            else                          count    interval- gt s   text    second        if empty  text   return   lt i class  fa fa-clock-o  gt  lt  i gt     count      return   lt i class  fa fa-clock-o  gt  lt  i gt     count    count   1      text        text s         suffix

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lt  php  start   strtotime  12 01 00     end   strtotime  13 16 00     mins     end -  start    60  echo  mins    gt    Output   75

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