Whatever works And the function works fine for any year after 2000
Besides... it was just a quick and dirty example -----Original Message----- From: Miguel Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:14 AM To: Demitrious S. Kelly Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Within the date format 1) That function isn't correct. 2) It's slow. 3) You still would have to call it once for each year in the range in order to figure out how many intervening leap years there are, and you'd have to check whether the dates in question fell before or after Feb 29. Much easier to just calculate the difference of days, months, and years. BTW, off the top of my head (untested), here's a more accurate (and a million times faster) way to check for a leap year: function is_leap ($year) { return (!($year % 4) && (($year % 100) || !($year % 400))); } miguel On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Demitrious S. Kelly wrote: > function is_leap($yyyy) { > $leap=0; > $refy=2000; > while ( $yyyy >= $refy ) { > if ( $refy == $yyyy ) { > $leap=1; > } else if ( $refy > $yyyy ) { > break; > } > $refy++; > $refy++; > $refy++; > $refy++; > } > return($leap); > } > > -----Original Message----- > From: Miguel Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:52 AM > To: Demitrious S. Kelly > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Within the date format > > Like I said, if it crosses through a leap year, your calculation may be > off. How many days are there in February when you don't know what year > it > is? > > miguel > > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Demitrious S. Kelly wrote: > > Wouldn't it be easier to convert each date into a unix timestamp, then > > subtract... the resulting number is the difference in seconds. Then > > devide by 60 for minutes, again for hours 24 for days, etc, etc > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Miguel Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:44 AM > > To: Ron Allen > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Within the date format > > > > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Ron Allen wrote: > > > This is what I have right now > > > > > > $totaltime= date(":H:i:s", mktime(0,0,$totaltime)); > > > > > > This is the result > > > > > > 04:20:46 > > > > > > from the following dates > > > 2002-04-25 16:30:16 > > > 2002-04-19 12:09:30 > > > 534046 seconds > > > > > > I would like to be able to get the days and, if needed, the number > of > > months > > > and years > > > > Well, I think the easiest way is going to be to split your date apart > > into > > $day, $month, $year and then subtract. > > > > You can't just do a cascading modulus calculation on the delta between > > the > > timestamps, because that won't take leap years into account. > > > > miguel > > > > > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
