Php Split date in time intervals

Asked May 12 '15 at 13:57

Active May 12 '15 at 14:19

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I need to express a past date to now difference in a human readable format (e.g. 1day 2hours 1minute etc..).

Here my try:

<?php
function datediff($datatodiff){
    $date = new DateTime(date("Y-m-d G:i:s", $datatodiff/1000))
    $now = new DateTime();
    $interval = $date->diff($now);
    return $interval->format("%m month %d days %h hours and %i minuts");
}
?>

My problem is that if I have to split the date in hours and minutes, I want to see all the time interval expressed.

My attempt is working, but only if i show all time units. I can clarify with an example.

1 year 4 months 3 days 1 hour 2 minutes

if i remove the months the output is 1 year 3 days 1 hour 2 minutes but i'd like:

1 year 123 days 1 hour 2 minutes. This behaviour with all units

The time units that will be displayed are chosen by the user. I also tried Carbon lib without success.

In Android I use period formatter from JodaTime Lib if can help.

Thank you in advance.

edited May 12 '15 at 14:19

asked May 12 '15 at 13:57

Giorgio

Probably this answers your question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2040560/finding-the-number-of-days-between-two-dates – Rakesh Shewale May 12 '15 at 14:00
Is your attempt is working a bit? it's giving fatel error? – Alive to die - Anant May 12 '15 at 14:03
You need to change your code like this:- diff($date1); // Call the format method on the DateInterval-object echo $diff->format('%a Day and %h hours'); } datediff('2015-10-02'); ?> Output:- http://prntscr.com/74dk83 – Alive to die - Anant May 12 '15 at 14:06

Php Split date in time intervals

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