Re: date time problem

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Jim,

The date method takes in a timestamp (not seconds away).

You have the seconds, you will need to manually convert those seconds to
what you desire (minutes = seconds / 60), (hours = minutes / 60), etc..

Aziz


On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Farzan Dalaee <farzan.dalaee@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Its so freaky
>
> Best Regards
> Farzan Dalaee
>
> > On Oct 7, 2013, at 2:29, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/6/2013 6:49 PM, Farzan Dalaee wrote:
> >> Try this please
> >>
> >>  gmdate("H:i:s", $diff%86400)
> >>
> >> Best Regards
> >> Farzan Dalaee
> >>
> >>>> On Oct 7, 2013, at 2:12, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/6/2013 6:36 PM, Farzan Dalaee wrote:
> >>>> 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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> >>> Thanks for the quick response, but why do I want to show the time in
> GMT?  However, I did try it, changing the 'time_left' calc to use "gmdate".
>  Now instead of a 7 for hours I have a 12.
> >>>
> >>> exp 07:34:52
> >>> curr 06:40:14
> >>> diff 3158
> >>> left is 12:52:38
> >>>
> >>> The 52:38 is the correct value, but not the 12.
> >>>
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> > Doesn't work either.
> >
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