Php date and Hours issue

Question

I want to display the time between two datetime like this:

$diff = strtotime('2014-06-30 15:23:19') - strtotime('2014-06-30 15:20:16');
echo "time: ".date('H:i:s', $diff);

The result is :

time: 01:03:03

I don't understant why the hours display '01' ?? I tried with 'h:i:s' or 'g:i:s' but it doesn't work.

I would like this result:

time: 00:03:03

Swap the order of the times. you're getting a negative value here because you are subtracting the future from the past. — VikingBlooded, Jun 30 '14 at 13:44
When you do something like `date('H:i:s', $diff)`, you're asking php to format the time that's `$diff` seconds after the epoch (jan 1, 1970, UTC). If you don't live in a time zone that's +0 GMT, you're not going to see the value you're expecting. — Sam Dufel, Jun 30 '14 at 13:48

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 30 '14 at 13:46

3

Have a look at the built in DateTime::diff functions of php.

You could do something like:

$time1 = new DateTime('2014-06-30 15:20:16');
$time2 = new DateTime('2014-06-30 15:23:19');

$diff = $time1->diff($time2);

answered Jun 30 '14 at 13:46

Cjmarkham

1 Answers1