Trying to get the difference in hours between two dates

Question

I'm trying to get the time difference between the current date and another date in php but i'm getting wrong results. Her's my code so far:

function hoursDifference($date)
{
   return round((time()- strtotime($date))/3600);
}

The input date is: 2016-03-20 03:55:51 but the current time is using the 24 hours format, so the H is 15 instead of 3 and the function returns a correct 12 hour time difference. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

For 12 hour Date instead of 24 hour Date use a Lower case 'h'. You should also take a look at DateTime::diff like @fusion3k mentioned.

This link should also help you on which parameters you can use on your $date.

Answer 2

Try with this

 function hoursDifference($date)
 {
  return round(strtotime(date("Y-m-d h:i:s")) - strtotime($date))/3600);
 }

Answer 3

use the DateTime Object: http://php.net/manual/de/class.datetime.php

echo hoursDifference("2016-03-20 12:13:12");

function hoursDifference($date)
{
    $d = new DateTime($date);
    $now = new DateTime();   
    $iv = $now->diff($d);
    return $iv->h;
}