Perfect. Thank-you very much :)

Mark Carruth


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nasser Saleem Ahmed" <nas@s...>
To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: [pro_php] RE: Time Remaining


> Easy, write a simple function that does this (Pseudcode included)... 
> 
> TimeSpan = Second number - first number (obviuosly second date should be
> greater than first)
> 
> SecondsInDay = 60 (seconds in minute) x 60 (minutes in hour) x 24 
> 86400 (seconds in day) SecondsInHour = 60 (seconds in minute) x 60
> (minutes in hour) = 3600 (seconds in hour)
> 
> Function CalculateDays
> If TimeSpan > SecondsInDay then
> Days = TimeSpan/SecondsInDay (days left)
> Return Days
> EndIf 
> End Function
> 
> Function CalculateHours
> If TimeSpan > SecondsInHour & TimeSpan < SecondsInDay then (there are
> only hours left)
> Hours = TimeSpan/SecondsInHour (hours left)
> Return Hours
> EndIf
> End Function
> 
> Function CalculateMinutes
> If TimeSpan < SecondsInHour then (there are only minutes left)
> Minutes = TimeSpan/60 (minutes left)
> Seconds = Remainder are then seconds left
> Return Minutes Seconds (array)
> EndIf
> End Function
> 
> Needs some work and could also write a class to do these calcualtions,
> you may want to search on the wbe as someone may have already wrote
> this, try the http://www.zend.com/codex.php code galleries...
> 
> Found this http://www.zend.com/codex.php?id=725&single=1, which is the
> complete solution, so much for my code!!!
> 
> Nasser :)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Carruth [mailto:mcarruth@t...] 
> Sent: 21 April 2002 18:16
> To: professional php
> Subject: [pro_php] Time Remaining
> 
> 
> Here's an interesting problem I encountered when writing a script. I
> have two dates, which I can easily turn into Unix Timestamps, what is
> the easiest to work out how much time there is between the two? i.e. 2
> days, 5 hours etc.
> 
> Any Help appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Mark Carruth
> 
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