RE: a little math

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>
> maybe someone can figure why sometimes i get negative values for seconds..
>
> $job['finished'] and $job['finished'] are both unix timestamp.
> i subtract both to get how many seconds some thing took.. well you
> should be able to read the rest. sometimes it works fine but other times
> i get negative seconds.
>
>
> $job['run_time']  = ($job['finished'] - $job['started']);
>
> $minutes = number_format($job['run_time'] / 60, 0, '', '');
>
> // seconds left after calculating minutes
> $seconds = (($job['run_time']- 60) * $minutes);
>
> $job['runtime'] = $minutes . ' mins ' . $seconds . ' secs';
>

If $job['run_time'] < 60 then clearly $seconds will be negative.

Why don't you use:

$minutes = floor($job['run_time'] / 60);
$seconds = $job['run_time'] % 60;

Edward

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