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Discussion in 'Software' started by nry, 24 May 2009.

  1. nry

    nry Minimodder

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    Basically got a variable $seconds, which holds a number of seconds up to 2 months

    Making some code to calculate the number of sec, mins, hours, days, weeks and months are in this variable

    So far I have this:

    PHP:
            $days intval(intval($seconds) / 86400);
            
    //Calculate the hours
            
    $hours intval(intval($seconds 3600), 3600);
            
    //Calculate the miniutes
            
    $minutes bcmod((intval($seconds) / 60),60);
            
    //Calculate the seconds
            
    $seconds bcmod(intval($seconds),60);
    Just the hours don't work.

    Not got past days yet either.

    Any help would be brilliant :D
     
  2. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Try $hours = floor($seconds/3600); It looks like you're converting a valid value into base 3600, which is pretty much impossible (we don't have sufficient character sets to even represent that) and in any case will not bring the desired result.
     
  3. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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    Code:
    $hourdiff = "-3"; // difference in hours between the web servers time and your time
    $disp = date("l, d F Y h:i a",time() + ($hourdiff * 3600));
    echo $disp;
    
    you can use something simple like this if you wanted to display the time and date.. output would look like this

    Sunday, 24 May 2009 06:31 pm

    * just re-read.. this is more along what you wanted

    Code:
    $s = 200000; // number of seconds set
    
      $d = intval($s/86400);
    
      $h = intval($s/3600);
    
      $m = intval($s/60);
    
    
    echo $d."d ". $h ."h ". $m ."m ". $s."s";
    output for 20,000 seconds

    2d 55h 3333m 200000s
     
    Last edited: 25 May 2009
  4. hitman012

    hitman012 Minimodder

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    That would output the number of seconds converted to days, then converted to hours, then minutes, then seconds. He wants to convert it as a whole.

    I haven't tested this, but you should be able to use the mod operator to find the remaining number of seconds after dividing to get days, hours etc:

    PHP:
     // Divide by seconds in a week
    $weeks floor($totalSeconds 604800);
    // Get remainder after week division, divide by seconds in a day
    $days floor(($totalSeconds 604800) / 86400); 
    // Get remainder after day division, divide by seconds in an hour
    $hours floor(($totalSeconds 86400) / 3600); 
    // Get remainder after hour division, divide by seconds in a minute
    $minutes floor(($totalSeconds 3600) / 60); 
    // Get remainder after division by minutes
    $seconds $totalSeconds 60;  

    echo 
    "$weeks weeks, $days days, $hours hours, $minutes minutes and $seconds seconds.";
    Should be easy to extend to months, years etc if you want.

    Edit: tested, works fine.
     
    Last edited: 25 May 2009
  5. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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    :duh: thanks hit.. that'll work- I was thinking- oh nm lol that's what he wants
     
  6. BlackWhizz

    BlackWhizz What's a Dremel?

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    Why? PHP found out timestamps for this:

    Code:
    $timestamp = 20000000;
    echo date('\D\a\y: d \M\o\n\t\h m \Y\e\a\r Y H:i:s', $timestamp);
    
     
  7. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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    yeah was thinking that too whizz when first read it.. but it looks like he needs the values put into strings for whatever he's working on
     
  8. BlackWhizz

    BlackWhizz What's a Dremel?

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    Thats what the date function actualy does!

    The only thing is that you need to escape the first parameter because some parts is text.
     

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