> I want to take away two times stored in the format "00:00:00" in a mysql
> database, i retrieve the times and take them away by using the following
>
> $total = $time1 - $time2 ;
>
> when i echo the total it is a whole number of the hours.. and does not
take
> the minutes into account, anyone hav
$foo = split(":",$time1);
$bar = split(":",$time2);
$time1 = mktime($foo[0],$foo[1],$foo[2],1,1,1980);
$time2 = mktime($bar[0],$bar[1],$bar[2],1,1,1980);
$total = $time1 - $time2;
That will give you the difference in seconds between the two.
I'll let you convert it to hh:mm:ss.
Peter
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