Is there a built in way?

[rarebit]

Hi, I want to display how much time is left on things (e.g. poll), i've looked around php.net, but it seems like time and rather than subtracting the epoch away I did this...

function time_split($secs)
{
//	YEARS
$years = intval($secs / 31536000);
$rem = $secs % 31536000;
//	DAYS
$days = intval($rem / 86400);
$rem = $rem % 86400;
//	HOURS
$hours = intval($rem / 3600);
$rem = $rem % 3600;
//	MINS
$mins = intval($rem / 60);
$rem = $rem % 60;

$sret = "";

if($years>0)
{
	$s="";
	if($years>1)	{	$s="s";	}
	$sret .= $years." year".$s." ";
}
if($days>0)
{
	$s="";
	if($days>1)	{	$s="s";	}
	$sret .= $days." day".$s." ";
}
if($hours>0)
{
	$s="";
	if($hours>1)	{	$s="s";	}
	$sret .= $hours." hour".$s." ";
}
if($mins>0)
{
	$s="";
	if($mins>1)	{	$s="s";	}
	$sret .= $mins." min".$s." ";
}
if($rem>0)
{
	$s="";
	if($rem>1)	{	$s="s";	}
	$sret .= $rem." sec".$s."";
}
return $sret;
}

$n = 35190462;
print time_split($n);

 

is there a better way?

 

(even by bit shifting or something?)

 

ta