You should use gmdate() if you want to how many hours left to expire
$time_left = gmdate("H:i:s",$diff);
Best Regards
Farzan Dalaee
> On Oct 7, 2013, at 1:49, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I always hate dealing with date/time stuff in php - never get it even close until an hour or two goes by....
>
> anyway
>
> I have this:
>
> // get two timestamp values
> $exp_time = $_COOKIE[$applid."expire"];
> $curr_time = time();
> // get the difference
> $diff = $exp_time - $curr_time;
> // produce a display time of the diff
> $time_left = date("h:i:s",$diff);
>
> Currently the results are:
> exp_time is 06:55:07
> curr_time is 06:12:03
> the diff is 2584
> All of these are correct.
>
> BUT time_left is 07:43:04 when it should be only "00:43:04".
>
> So - where is the hour value of '07' coming from?? And how do I get this right?
>
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