How to Format time in Yahoo PIpes to get the minutes past..??

Question

I fetched the tweets from twitter api using yahoo pipes. Now, twitter gives the time in this format "Thu May 27 19:56:21 +0000 2010". I want to know how many minutes have past since "Thu May 27 19:56:21 +0000 2010". How, can i format "Thu May 27 19:56:21 +0000 2010" in order to get the minutes past?? in other words, i want to subract "now" and "Thu May 27 19:56:21 +0000 2010". Then convert the result into minutes.

Please help me...

Answer 1

$tweet_time = strtotime("Thu May 27 19:56:21 +0000 2010");
$minutes_since = (time() - $tweet_time) * 60;