[SOLVED] strtotime() - difference between 2 timestamps

[cell]

Hi everybody;

i've been looking for a similar post here, but couldn't find any answer... the thing is simple.
i have 2 dates in "MINUTES:SECONDS:MSECONDS" format, which I read as strings. I conver them to time and substract. The time difference is what I need.
A sample:
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$dif = strtotime($globalCUE['timeIndex'][$z]) - strtotime($globalCUE['timeIndex'][$z-1]);

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[b]everything is fine if MINUTES <= 60[/b]. but this is a CD CUE sheet and it's likely to get input values like "[b]64:12:00[/b]". in this case the function freaks out and returns nothing. any other idea that comes to your mind? any workaround? I guess it can't be that hard...

thanks!

[Psycho]

Off the top of my head, I would convert everything to a single time parameter (either seconds or milliseconds) then subtract and convert back. May not be the most efficient method, but the most straitforward.

$time1Ary = array_reverse(explode(":",$globalCUE['timeIndex'][$z]));
$time2Ary = array_reverse(explode(":",$globalCUE['timeIndex'][$z-1]));
$time1 = $time1Ary[0] + $time1Ary[1]*60 + $time1Ary[2]*3600;
$time2 = $time2Ary[0] + $time2Ary[1]*60 + $time2Ary[2]*3600;
$dif = $time1 - $time2; //Difference in milliseconds

[cell]

thanks A LOT!
works fine for me! ;)