Samuz Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 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? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/253427-brain-freeze-finding-seconds-between-2-timestamps/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Find the abs difference between the values produced by strtotime for each of the timestamps. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/253427-brain-freeze-finding-seconds-between-2-timestamps/#findComment-1299031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuz Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 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? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/253427-brain-freeze-finding-seconds-between-2-timestamps/#findComment-1299035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 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(). Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/253427-brain-freeze-finding-seconds-between-2-timestamps/#findComment-1299039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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