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we had a similar problem when developing xhelp - our helpdesk application. We created a custom function to take the difference between two times and break it down into units:
The function is used like this:
le="color: #000000"><?php //Assumes that original time is stored in $time2 //Get Current TimeStamp $time1 = time(); //Get Number of elapsed seconds $elapsed = $time1 - $time2; $elapsed = xhelpGetElaspedTime($elapsed); //Now $elapsed is an array: // $elasped['years'] contains the number of years // $elapsed['weeks'] contains the number of weeks // $elapsed['days'] contains the number of days // $elapsed['hours'] contains the number of hours // $elapsed['minutes'] contains the number of minutes // $elapsed['seconds'] contains the number of seconds
And the function is defined like so:
le="color: #000000"><?php function xhelpGetElapsedTime($time) { //Define the units of measure $units = array('years' => (365*60*60*24) /*Value of Unit expressed in seconds*/, 'weeks' => (7*60*60*24), 'days' => (60*60*24), 'hours' => (60*60), 'minutes' => 60, 'seconds' => 1); $local_time = $time; $elapsed_time = array(); //Calculate the total for each unit measure foreach($units as $key=>$single_unit) { $elapsed_time[$key] = floor($local_time / $single_unit); $local_time -= ($elapsed_time[$key] * $single_unit); } return $elapsed_time; }
