How to calculate minute difference between two date-times in PHP?
S.L. Barth
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asked Dec 13, 2008 at 13:05
Tom SmykowskiTom Smykowski
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The answers above are for older versions of PHP. Use the DateTime class to do any date calculations now that PHP 5.3 is the norm. Eg.
$start_date = new DateTime['2007-09-01 04:10:58'];
$since_start = $start_date->diff[new DateTime['2012-09-11 10:25:00']];
echo $since_start->days.' days total
';
echo $since_start->y.' years
';
echo $since_start->m.' months
';
echo $since_start->d.' days
';
echo $since_start->h.' hours
';
echo $since_start->i.' minutes
';
echo $since_start->s.' seconds
';
$since_start is a DateInterval object. Note that the days property is available [because we used the diff method of the DateTime class to generate the DateInterval object].
The above code will output:
1837 days total
5 years
0 months
10 days
6 hours
14 minutes
2 seconds
To get the total number of minutes:
$minutes = $since_start->days * 24 * 60;
$minutes += $since_start->h * 60;
$minutes += $since_start->i;
echo $minutes.' minutes';
This will output:
2645654 minutes
Which is the actual number of minutes that has passed between the two dates. The DateTime class will take daylight saving [depending on timezone] into account where the "old way" won't. Read the manual about Date and Time //www.php.net/manual/en/book.datetime.php
answered Sep 12, 2012 at 7:11
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Here is the answer:
$to_time = strtotime["2008-12-13 10:42:00"];
$from_time = strtotime["2008-12-13 10:21:00"];
echo round[abs[$to_time - $from_time] / 60,2]. " minute";
answered Dec 13, 2008 at 13:36
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Subtract the past most one from the future most one and divide by 60.
Times are done in Unix format so they're just a big number showing the number of seconds from January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT
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answered Dec 13, 2008 at 13:23
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answered Dec 13, 2008 at 15:49
TomTom
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Output:
75
answered Sep 12, 2019 at 14:10
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It worked on my programs, i'am using date_diff, you can check date_diff manual on here.
$start = date_create['2015-01-26 12:01:00'];
$end = date_create['2015-01-26 13:15:00'];
$diff=date_diff[$end,$start];
print_r[$diff];
You get results what do you want.
answered Jul 9, 2015 at 15:43
yussanyussan
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another way with timezone.
$start_date = new DateTime["2013-12-24 06:00:00",new DateTimeZone['Pacific/Nauru']];
$end_date = new DateTime["2013-12-24 06:45:00", new DateTimeZone['Pacific/Nauru']];
$interval = $start_date->diff[$end_date];
$hours = $interval->format['%h'];
$minutes = $interval->format['%i'];
echo 'Diff. in minutes is: '.[$hours * 60 + $minutes];
answered Dec 24, 2013 at 13:16
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I wrote this function for one my blog site[difference between a past date and server's date]. It will give you an output like this
"49 seconds ago", "20 minutes ago", "21 hours ago" and so on
I have used a function that would get me the difference between the date passed and the server's date.
Save it as a file suppose "date.php". Call the function from another page like this