How to get time difference in minutes in PHP

Question

How to calculate minute difference between two date-times in PHP?

Answer 1

Subtract the past-most one from the future-most one and divide by 60.

Times are done in unix format so they're just a big number showing the number of seconds from January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT

Answer 2

Here is the answer:

print("<?php
$to_time=strtotime("2008-12-13 10:42:00");
$from_time=strtotime("2008-12-13 10:21:00");
echo round(abs($to_time - $from_time) / 60,2)." minute";
?>");

Answer 3

<?php
$date1 = time();
sleep(2000);
$date2 = time();
$mins = ($date2 - $date1) / 60;
echo $mins;
?>

Answer 4

You are the MAN...thanx, you were most helpful

Answer 5

How would I do this if my "times" are stored as data in cells?

[eg: check-out time minus check-in time = wait time]

Answer 6

Thanks....this is the best, simple, smart code I have seen so far for this problem of date difference.

Answer 7

Works like a charm, thnx :)

Answer 8

you can find answer this URL http://erandaisuru.blogspot.com/2009/10/hot-to-get-time-difference-using-php.html