say i've got a variable, the result of a call to time() from a couple weeks ago, and i want to get the difference between it and the current time, with weeks, days, hours, mins seperate...is there a good way to do this already? i can't just do "60 seconds in 60 minutes in 24 hours..." what with daylight savings time, leap years, etc etc.

this is what i need to do, and i want to make sure theres no better way to do it than to figure all the math myself. (numbers, they scare me like spiders)

$then = "1112241312";
$now = time();

$timespan = $now - $then;

($weeks,$days,$hours,$minutes,$seconds) = doSomethingHere($timespan);

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In reply to figuring difference in times? by Anonymous Monk

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