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Patrioticcow
Patrioticcow

Reputation: 27038

What is the proper way of converting a timestamp to a human readable date?

i've got 2 time stamps: $start_time = 1312346227; and $end_time = 1312346466; and i am trying to substract them to see the time inbetween $end_time = $end_time - $start_time;

and i get 239.

What is the proper way of converting this to a human readable date?

if i try echo date("h:i:s A",$end_time); i get 04:03:59 and it should be 00:03:59

any ideas? Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 86

Answers (3)

Pekka
Pekka

Reputation: 449395

If you have PHP 5.3, use the DateInterval class.

Example stolen from the manual page on DateInterval::format():

<?php

$january = new DateTime('2010-01-01');
$february = new DateTime('2010-02-01');
$interval = $february->diff($january);

// %a will output the total number of days.
echo $interval->format('%a total days')."\n";

// While %d will only output the number of days not already covered by the
// month.
echo $interval->format('%m month, %d days');

?>

Upvotes: 4

Mchl
Mchl

Reputation: 62369

You get addiionl four hours, because of your timezone. Remember that unix timestamp is the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. If you (or your server) are in UTC+4 TZ, then date() will implicitly do a timezone conversion to your local time.

Solution? Use gmdate() instead

Upvotes: 3

Jonathan Cremin
Jonathan Cremin

Reputation: 705

You need to set your timezone correctly. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

Upvotes: 1

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