Re: A better way to do this in php???

[Brent Baisley <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a one liner that gives the minutes since midnight:
floor( (time()-mktime(0,0,0, date( 'm' ), date( 'd' ), date( 'Y' 
)))/60);

Both time() and mktime() return the seconds since epoch. Time is based 
on current time, and the mktime parameters base it on midnight. A 
simple subtraction gives you the seconds since midnight. Divide by 60 
to get minutes and use floor() to drop any extra "seconds".


On Oct 20, 2004, at 6:45 PM, bclem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I need to find the exact time of day using "minutes since midnight".
>
> What is the easiest and/or better way to do this in php?
>
> This is how I'm doing it now.
>
> // $iMinutes is the total number of minutes since midnight/12am
> // 0 = midnight/12am
> // 1439 = 11:59pm
>
> $iMinutes = 1230;
>
> if ($iMinutes < 0 || $iMinutes > 1439) {
>         $restime = "??:??";
> } else {
>         $iHour = $iMinutes / 60;
>         $iMins = ($iMinutes - (60*$iHour)) % 60;
>
>         if ($iHour <= 12) {
>                 $restime .= $iHour . ":";
>         } else {
>                 $restime .= $iHour-12 . ":";
>         }
>
>         if ($iMins < 10) {
>                 $restime .= "0" . $iMins;
>         } else {
>                 $restime .= $iMins;
>         }
>         if ($iHour < 12) {
>                 $restime .= " a.m.";
>         } else if ($iHour==12 && $iMins==0) {
>                 $restime .= " noon";
>         } else {
>                 $restime .= " pm";
>         }
> }
>
>
> Thanks, Brent
>
>
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