Datetime Difference Error

Question

I have a problem when I use difference of the datetime.

Here is the php code

$datetime1 = new DateTime('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2009-10-13');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->days;

The correct result should be 2. But unfortunately it results 6015. Even when I change the date, its still 6015. Did you guys encounter this problem? I tried to run the script from other computer but its working.

This says `2`: http://codepad.viper-7.com/wa4xVo So I imagine you have a setting out of whack or something. — Jared Farrish, Mar 21 '13 at 06:16

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '13 at 06:23

yes sure man for that you need to assign timezone

try this code i set it for india

$MNTTZ = new DateTimeZone('Asia/Kolkata');
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2009-10-11',$MNTTZ);
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2009-10-13',$MNTTZ);
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->days;

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

Try this,

$start_date = new DateTime("2009-10-11");
$end_date = new DateTime("2009-10-13");
$interval = $start_date->diff($end_date);
echo "Result " . $interval->y . " years, " . $interval->m." months, ".$interval->d." days ";

you use $interval->days replace with $interval->d." days "

you can check my answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/14938421/718224 on date difference for more information.

may this help you.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 21 '13 at 06:20

0

make sure to set format()

 <?php
    $datetime1 = date_create('2009-10-11');
    $datetime2 = date_create('2009-10-13');
    $interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);
    echo $interval->format('%R%a days');
    ?>

see here...

answered Mar 21 '13 at 06:20

Ikong

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