Date Timer

Question

Good is the following I have a certain date and a certain time.

I wanted php to show me how many days, hours, minutes and seconds are left for that particular date and that particular time.

I mean, I have a date and a time in a variable and I want an echo in php to show me how long it takes to get to that date.

It doesn’t have to be real time!

I want the end date to be hour and minute and second.

Just enter the site and appear how much time is left, no need to decrease or anything!

I hope that was understood. Thank you.

Answer 1

Using the example of this reply, but with hours minutes and seconds:

$termina = new \DateTime('2017-12-11 11:14:15');
$hoje    = new \DateTime();

$intervalo = $hoje->diff($termina);

echo "Intervalo é de {$intervalo->y} anos, {$intervalo->m} meses e {$intervalo->d} dias, {$intervalo->h} horas, {$intervalo->i} minutos, {$intervalo->s} segundos";

If you want to add milesegundos do so:

2017-12-11 11:14:15.638276

The 638276 is the value of milesegundo and cannot be separated from the .

Documentation:

• http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php

• http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.diff.php

• $intervalo->y returns year

• $intervalo->m returns month
• $intervalo->d returns day
• $intervalo->h return time
• $intervalo->i returns minutes
• $intervalo->s returns seconds

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To add decimals you can use str_pad or sprintf, as in this answer: /a/51828/3635 (with the example of sprintf nominated by fellow @Wallacemaxters), so should stay:

$termina = new \DateTime('2050-12-11 11:14:15');
$hoje    = new \DateTime();

$intervalo = $hoje->diff($termina);

printf('%04d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d:%02d', $intervalo->y, $intervalo->m, $intervalo->d, $intervalo->h, $intervalo->i, $intervalo->s);

An online example: https://ideone.com/DkK2WS