PHP datetime: now - 2014-10-20 12:13:29

Question

I want to get minutes between now and future time, please help me!

$time = now - future time  

echo minutes

We are sorry, we do not have telepathic abilities and are not able to read the minds of others. Try to explain in more details what you want from us. — Cheery, Oct 09 '14 at 07:03
If you want the difference in minutes between two dates, please take a look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/365191/how-to-get-time-difference-in-minutes-in-php — bruchowski, Oct 09 '14 at 07:07
i want to get time like this structure: now minus other datetime — user3185208, Oct 09 '14 at 07:11

The_Monster · Answer 1 · 2014-10-09T07:19:48.693

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I think you are looking for this:

date('Y-m-d H:i:s')

Check this link for more information http://pl.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

If you are looking for the Datetime class check out this link: http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php

If you want the diffrence between times you'll need this:

$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";

edited Oct 09 '14 at 07:19

answered Oct 09 '14 at 07:03

The_Monster

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pretty sure he's trying to get the difference in minutes between now and a future date – bruchowski Oct 09 '14 at 07:07
i think user is asking to use `DateTime` class and not `date()` function – krishna Oct 09 '14 at 07:08
Ah oke, then i missunderstood the question – The_Monster Oct 09 '14 at 07:11
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@bruchowski you are true,thank you, i want to get difference in minutes beetween now and a future date. Sorry for my english – user3185208 Oct 09 '14 at 07:18
@user3185208 I've editted the quetion. I think you need something like that – The_Monster Oct 09 '14 at 07:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '14 at 07:28

You can use DateTime class to get desired result

$now = new DateTime();
$date = new DateTime("2014-10-20 12:13:29");

//calculate the difference between two dates
$diff = $now->diff($date);

//caculate number of minutes between two dates
$minutes = $diff->days * 24 * 60;
$minutes += $diff->h * 60;
$minutes += $diff->i;

// display difference in minutes
echo $minutes.' minutes';

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