Comments on: One from the archive: resurrecting time_since()

By: s. smith

s. smith — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:02:55 +0000

In EXCEL, how can you sum up hours and minutes when hours can exceed 24 and minutes can exceed 60.
EX. 23:30
22:45
sum 46:15

By: developercast.com » Photogapple.co.uk: time_since

developercast.com » Photogapple.co.uk: time_since — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:55:59 +0000

[...] On the Photogapple.co.uk blog today, there’s some handy code that can definitely be useful when working with dates in PHP - a function to find the difference between the current time and a timestamp you give it. I found it incredibly difficult to find any form of time_since function in php so to save anyone else the trouble to hunting through hundreds of useless websites here is the function you may want to use, written by Natalie Downe (you don’t want to know how long it took to hunt it down). [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:28:07 +0000

You wont believe how long it has taken me to find this code! Every one kept linking to a website that doesn’t excist anymore (I guess it was an old one of yours). I am glad I found it tho, helped me out a great deal, thanks.

By: Photogabble » time_since

Photogabble » time_since — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:15:37 +0000

[...] I found it incredibly difficult to find any form of time_since function in php so to save anyone else the trouble to hunting through hundereds of useless websites here is the function you may want to use, written by Natalie Downe (you dont want to know how long it took to hunt it down). [...]

By: davee

davee — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:33:40 +0000

What perfect timing on this post, Nat: I was looking for something like this for an application being developed at work. Cheers :-)

davee
The One Who Drove You To LugradioLive2006

By: Karsten

Karsten — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:54:43 +0000

Interesting, I just programmed something like this yesterday. My code looks almost the same...


function timetostr($duration = 0) {
  // calculate days, hours, minutes, seconds
  $d = (int)($duration/(60*60*24));
  $h = (int)(($duration % (60*60*24))/(60*60));
  $m = (int)(($duration % (60*60))/60);
  $s = (int)($duration % 60);

  // generate output
  $r = \"\";
  $start = \"\";
  if ($d) {
    $r = $d.\" day\".($d == 1 ? \"\" : \"s\");
    $start = \", \";
  }
  if ($h) {
    $r .= $start.$h.\" hour\".($h == 1 ? \"\" : \"s\");
    $start = \", \";
  }
  if ($m) {
    $r .= $start.$m.\" minute\".($m == 1 ? \"\" : \"s\");
    $start = \", \";
  }
  $r .= $start.$s.\" second\".($s == 1 ? \"\" : \"s\");

  return $r;
}

If I want to have a shorter display, I then use print preg_replace(\"/ ([a-z])[a-z]*,?/\", \"\\${1}\", timetostr($somedate))