An easier way to do that would be using the diff() method of a DateTime object on another.
Regards
Romain Ciaccafava
> Le 7 oct. 2013 à 03:10, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
>> On 10/6/2013 7:55 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2013-10-06 at 19:14 -0400, Aziz Saleh wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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>>
>> Aziz, please try not to top post :)
>>
>> It's true that the date() function takes in a timestamp as its argument,
>> but a timestamp is a number representing the number of seconds since
>> 00:00:00 1st January 1970, so passing in a very small number of seconds
>> is perfectly valid.
>>
>> The only thing that would account for the 7 hours difference is the time
>> zone, which would also be part of the timestamp.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time gives more details.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ash
>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> Thanks Ash, but the previous (top) post explained my dilemma just as you have done here. My attempt to use a function to avoid "doing the math" has now been resolved. Guess I'll have to do it the old-fashioned way.
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