Brain freeze > finding seconds between 2 timestamps.

[Samuz]

Okay guys.

 

My brain has completely froze and I can't figure out how to do this.

 

I have one date, that is somewhat static it doesn't change regularly but it changes. Anyway let's say this timestamp is:

 

2011-07-12 10:30:00

 

and the current timestamp is

 

2011-07-13 10:30:00

 

That's exactly a day difference, which will produce 86400 seconds.

 

How would I write this in PHP?

[Pikachu2000]

Find the abs difference between the values produced by strtotime for each of the timestamps.

[Samuz]

Thanks for the reply.

 

I'm still abit confused and not totally sure how I can use abs() in this situation.

 

I first converted the date stamps to unix and then tried to subtract them from each other.

 

Is that logically the correct way to go about it?

[Pikachu2000]

Yes. Using abs() just makes sure you get a positive result regardless of the order of the values in the math operation. If you are also trying to determine if a date is in the past or future, then you wouldn't necessarily want to use abs().