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";
$date1=date_create("2020-03-15");
$date2=date_create("2020-12-12");
$diff=date_diff($date1,$date2);
echo $diff->format("%R%a days");
For detailed format specifiers, visit the link.
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->diff(new DateTime('2012-09-11 10:25:00'));
echo $since_start->days.' days total<br>';
echo $since_start->y.' years<br>';
echo $since_start->m.' months<br>';
echo $since_start->d.' days<br>';
echo $since_start->h.' hours<br>';
echo $since_start->i.' minutes<br>';
echo $since_start->s.' seconds<br>';
$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 total
5 years
0 months
10 days
6 hours
14 minutes
2 seconds
To get the total number of minutes:
$minutes = $since_start->days * 24 * 60;
$minutes += $since_start->h * 60;
$minutes += $since_start->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
function date_getFullTimeDifference( $start, $end )
{
$uts['start'] = strtotime( $start );
$uts['end'] = strtotime( $end );
if( $uts['start']!==-1 && $uts['end']!==-1 )
{
if( $uts['end'] >= $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( $diff );
return( array('years'=>$years,'months'=>$months,'days'=>$days, 'hours'=>$hours, 'minutes'=>$minutes, 'seconds'=>$diff) );
}
else
{
echo "Ending date/time is earlier than the start date/time";
}
}
else
{
echo "Invalid date/time data detected";
}
}
This is how I displayed "xx times ago" in php > 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 "xx times ago" 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 = $today->diff($thatDay);
if ($dt->y > 0){
$number = $dt->y;
$unit = "year";
} else if ($dt->m > 0) {
$number = $dt->m;
$unit = "month";
} else if ($dt->d > 0) {
$number = $dt->d;
$unit = "day";
} else if ($dt->h > 0) {
$number = $dt->h;
$unit = "hour";
} else if ($dt->i > 0) {
$number = $dt->i;
$unit = "minute";
} else if ($dt->s > 0) {
$number = $dt->s;
$unit = "second";
}
$unit .= $number > 1 ? "s" : "";
$ret = $number." ".$unit." "."ago";
return $ret;
}
<?php
$start = strtotime('12:01:00');
$end = strtotime('13:16:00');
$mins = ($end - $start) / 60;
echo $mins;
?>
Output:
75
I wrote this function for one my blog site(difference between a past date and server's date). It will give you an output like this
"49 seconds ago", "20 minutes ago", "21 hours ago" and so on
I have used a function that would get me the difference between the date passed and the server's date.
<?php
//Code written by purpledesign.in Jan 2014
function dateDiff($date)
{
$mydate= date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$theDiff="";
//echo $mydate;//2014-06-06 21:35:55
$datetime1 = date_create($date);
$datetime2 = date_create($mydate);
$interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);
//echo $interval->format('%s Seconds %i Minutes %h Hours %d days %m Months %y Year Ago')."<br>";
$min=$interval->format('%i');
$sec=$interval->format('%s');
$hour=$interval->format('%h');
$mon=$interval->format('%m');
$day=$interval->format('%d');
$year=$interval->format('%y');
if($interval->format('%i%h%d%m%y')=="00000") {
//echo $interval->format('%i%h%d%m%y')."<br>";
return $sec." Seconds";
} else if($interval->format('%h%d%m%y')=="0000"){
return $min." Minutes";
} else if($interval->format('%d%m%y')=="000"){
return $hour." Hours";
} else if($interval->format('%m%y')=="00"){
return $day." Days";
} else if($interval->format('%y')=="0"){
return $mon." Months";
} else{
return $year." Years";
}
}
?>
Save it as a file suppose "date.php". Call the function from another page like this
<?php
require('date.php');
$mydate='2014-11-14 21:35:55';
echo "The Difference between the server's date and $mydate is:<br> ";
echo dateDiff($mydate);
?>
Of course you can modify the function to pass two values.
$date1=date_create("2020-03-15");
$date2=date_create("2020-12-12");
$diff=date_diff($date1,$date2);
echo $diff->format("%R%a days");
For detailed format specifiers, visit the link.
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 = $origin->diff($target);
echo (($interval->format('%d')*24) + $interval->format('%h'))*60; //1440 (difference in minutes)
I think this will help you
function calculate_time_span($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 < 60)
$time = $secs." seconds ago";
else if($seconds < 60*60 )
$time = $mins." min ago";
else if($seconds < 24*60*60)
$time = $hours." hours ago";
else if($seconds < 24*60*60)
$time = $day." day ago";
else
$time = $months." month ago";
return $time;
}
I found so many solution but I never got correct solution. But i have created some code to find minutes please check it.
<?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 < 0)
{
$hours = 24 + $hours;
}
if($mins2 >= $mins1) {
$mins = $mins2 - $mins1;
}
else {
$mins = ($mins2 + 60) - $mins1;
$hours--;
}
if($mins < 9)
{
$mins = str_pad($mins, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
}
if($hours < 9)
{
$hours =str_pad($hours, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
}
echo $hours.':'.$mins;
?>
It gives output in hours and minutes for example 01 hour 02 minutes like 01:02
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 - $from_time) / 60,2). " minute";
This will help....
function get_time($date,$nosuffix=''){
$datetime = new DateTime($date);
$interval = date_create('now')->diff( $datetime );
if(empty($nosuffix))$suffix = ( $interval->invert ? ' ago' : '' );
else $suffix='';
//return $interval->y;
if($interval->y >=1) {$count = date(VDATE, strtotime($date)); $text = '';}
elseif($interval->m >=1) {$count = date('M d', strtotime($date)); $text = '';}
elseif($interval->d >=1) {$count = $interval->d; $text = 'day';}
elseif($interval->h >=1) {$count = $interval->h; $text = 'hour';}
elseif($interval->i >=1) {$count = $interval->i; $text = 'minute';}
elseif($interval->s ==0) {$count = 'Just Now'; $text = '';}
else {$count = $interval->s; $text = 'second';}
if(empty($text)) return '<i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> '.$count;
return '<i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> '.$count.(($count ==1)?(" $text"):(" ${text}s")).' '.$suffix;
}
<?php
$date1 = time();
sleep(2000);
$date2 = time();
$mins = ($date2 - $date1) / 60;
echo $mins;
?>
A more universal version that returns result in days, hours, minutes or seconds including fractions/decimals:
function DateDiffInterval($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
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";
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;
I found so many solution but I never got correct solution. But i have created some code to find minutes please check it.
<?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 < 0)
{
$hours = 24 + $hours;
}
if($mins2 >= $mins1) {
$mins = $mins2 - $mins1;
}
else {
$mins = ($mins2 + 60) - $mins1;
$hours--;
}
if($mins < 9)
{
$mins = str_pad($mins, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
}
if($hours < 9)
{
$hours =str_pad($hours, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
}
echo $hours.':'.$mins;
?>
It gives output in hours and minutes for example 01 hour 02 minutes like 01:02
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 = $origin->diff($target);
echo (($interval->format('%d')*24) + $interval->format('%h'))*60; //1440 (difference in minutes)
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 = $start_date->diff($end_date);
$hours = $interval->format('%h');
$minutes = $interval->format('%i');
echo 'Diff. in minutes is: '.($hours * 60 + $minutes);
<?php
$date1 = time();
sleep(2000);
$date2 = time();
$mins = ($date2 - $date1) / 60;
echo $mins;
?>
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.
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
"49 seconds ago", "20 minutes ago", "21 hours ago" and so on
I have used a function that would get me the difference between the date passed and the server's date.
<?php
//Code written by purpledesign.in Jan 2014
function dateDiff($date)
{
$mydate= date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$theDiff="";
//echo $mydate;//2014-06-06 21:35:55
$datetime1 = date_create($date);
$datetime2 = date_create($mydate);
$interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);
//echo $interval->format('%s Seconds %i Minutes %h Hours %d days %m Months %y Year Ago')."<br>";
$min=$interval->format('%i');
$sec=$interval->format('%s');
$hour=$interval->format('%h');
$mon=$interval->format('%m');
$day=$interval->format('%d');
$year=$interval->format('%y');
if($interval->format('%i%h%d%m%y')=="00000") {
//echo $interval->format('%i%h%d%m%y')."<br>";
return $sec." Seconds";
} else if($interval->format('%h%d%m%y')=="0000"){
return $min." Minutes";
} else if($interval->format('%d%m%y')=="000"){
return $hour." Hours";
} else if($interval->format('%m%y')=="00"){
return $day." Days";
} else if($interval->format('%y')=="0"){
return $mon." Months";
} else{
return $year." Years";
}
}
?>
Save it as a file suppose "date.php". Call the function from another page like this
<?php
require('date.php');
$mydate='2014-11-14 21:35:55';
echo "The Difference between the server's date and $mydate is:<br> ";
echo dateDiff($mydate);
?>
Of course you can modify the function to pass two values.
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 < 60)
$time = $secs." seconds ago";
else if($seconds < 60*60 )
$time = $mins." min ago";
else if($seconds < 24*60*60)
$time = $hours." hours ago";
else if($seconds < 24*60*60)
$time = $day." day ago";
else
$time = $months." month ago";
return $time;
}
A more universal version that returns result in days, hours, minutes or seconds including fractions/decimals:
function DateDiffInterval($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
<?php
$start = strtotime('12:01:00');
$end = strtotime('13:16:00');
$mins = ($end - $start) / 60;
echo $mins;
?>
Output:
75
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";
function date_getFullTimeDifference( $start, $end )
{
$uts['start'] = strtotime( $start );
$uts['end'] = strtotime( $end );
if( $uts['start']!==-1 && $uts['end']!==-1 )
{
if( $uts['end'] >= $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( $diff );
return( array('years'=>$years,'months'=>$months,'days'=>$days, 'hours'=>$hours, 'minutes'=>$minutes, 'seconds'=>$diff) );
}
else
{
echo "Ending date/time is earlier than the start date/time";
}
}
else
{
echo "Invalid date/time data detected";
}
}
This will help....
function get_time($date,$nosuffix=''){
$datetime = new DateTime($date);
$interval = date_create('now')->diff( $datetime );
if(empty($nosuffix))$suffix = ( $interval->invert ? ' ago' : '' );
else $suffix='';
//return $interval->y;
if($interval->y >=1) {$count = date(VDATE, strtotime($date)); $text = '';}
elseif($interval->m >=1) {$count = date('M d', strtotime($date)); $text = '';}
elseif($interval->d >=1) {$count = $interval->d; $text = 'day';}
elseif($interval->h >=1) {$count = $interval->h; $text = 'hour';}
elseif($interval->i >=1) {$count = $interval->i; $text = 'minute';}
elseif($interval->s ==0) {$count = 'Just Now'; $text = '';}
else {$count = $interval->s; $text = 'second';}
if(empty($text)) return '<i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> '.$count;
return '<i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> '.$count.(($count ==1)?(" $text"):(" ${text}s")).' '.$suffix;
}
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.
<?php
$date1 = time();
sleep(2000);
$date2 = time();
$mins = ($date2 - $date1) / 60;
echo $mins;
?>
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->diff(new DateTime('2012-09-11 10:25:00'));
echo $since_start->days.' days total<br>';
echo $since_start->y.' years<br>';
echo $since_start->m.' months<br>';
echo $since_start->d.' days<br>';
echo $since_start->h.' hours<br>';
echo $since_start->i.' minutes<br>';
echo $since_start->s.' seconds<br>';
$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 total
5 years
0 months
10 days
6 hours
14 minutes
2 seconds
To get the total number of minutes:
$minutes = $since_start->days * 24 * 60;
$minutes += $since_start->h * 60;
$minutes += $since_start->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
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;
This is how I displayed "xx times ago" in php > 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 "xx times ago" 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 = $today->diff($thatDay);
if ($dt->y > 0){
$number = $dt->y;
$unit = "year";
} else if ($dt->m > 0) {
$number = $dt->m;
$unit = "month";
} else if ($dt->d > 0) {
$number = $dt->d;
$unit = "day";
} else if ($dt->h > 0) {
$number = $dt->h;
$unit = "hour";
} else if ($dt->i > 0) {
$number = $dt->i;
$unit = "minute";
} else if ($dt->s > 0) {
$number = $dt->s;
$unit = "second";
}
$unit .= $number > 1 ? "s" : "";
$ret = $number." ".$unit." "."ago";
return $ret;
}
My solution to find the difference between two dates is here. With this function you can find differences like seconds, minutes, hours, days, years and months.
function alihan_diff_dates($date = null, $diff = "minutes") {
$start_date = new DateTime($date);
$since_start = $start_date->diff(new DateTime( date('Y-m-d H:i:s') )); // date now
print_r($since_start);
switch ($diff) {
case 'seconds':
return $since_start->s;
break;
case 'minutes':
return $since_start->i;
break;
case 'hours':
return $since_start->h;
break;
case 'days':
return $since_start->d;
break;
default:
# code...
break;
}
}
You can develop this function. I tested and works for me. DateInterval object output is here:
/*
DateInterval Object ( [y] => 0 [m] => 0 [d] => 0 [h] => 0 [i] => 5 [s] => 13 [f] => 0 [weekday] => 0 [weekday_behavior] => 0 [first_last_day_of] => 0 [invert] => 0 [days] => 0 [special_type] => 0 [special_amount] => 0 [have_weekday_relative] => 0 [have_special_relative] => 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.
<?php
$date1 = time();
sleep(2000);
$date2 = time();
$mins = ($date2 - $date1) / 60;
echo $mins;
?>
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 = $start_date->diff($end_date);
$hours = $interval->format('%h');
$minutes = $interval->format('%i');
echo 'Diff. in minutes is: '.($hours * 60 + $minutes);
Source: Stackoverflow.com