simple date calculation

[greenba]

Hi,

 

I have two dates and I would like to get the difference in minutes:

 

 

$date1 = date("Y-m-d H:s:i"); // now

$date2 = // a date in the same format as above just retrieved from the database it will be in the future

 

So I would like to get just the minutes between them.

 

Thanx,

Adnan

[MasterACE14]

Take a look at this. http://au2.php.net/time

 

Regards ACE

 

 

[chrisuk]

I used the following code in an I.T. helpdesk system I developed to calculate the number of days since a call was logged:

 

 

<?php
//time difference 
$today = strtotime("now");
$logged_day = strtotime("$system_date"); //this is the date the call was logged
$timediff_sec = $today - $logged_day; //time difference in seconds
$timediff = $timediff_sec/86400; //86400 seconds in a day therefore dividing by this give no of days
$timediff = floor($timediff); //round down otherwise will appear one day older than actually is
?>