PHP使用小时和分钟减去日期

Question

Hi I've search the internet about this topics and seems can't give me the right ouput? What could I be doing doing wrong? I want to output the remaining days from an expiration period with hours and minutes.

Here's what I've done,

$date_expire = '2014-09-12 23:59:59';  
$date = new DateTime($date_expire);
$now =  new DateTime();
echo $date->diff($now)->format("%d days, %H hours and %i minutes");

I am from the philippines and the current date and time I wrote this is August 13, 2014 5:26pm the ouput gives me 29 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes. Which is think is wrong? Can you help me? thanks!

Answer 1

your source code is working fine and it does what you expect.

yes, on that date was missed 29 days 12 hours and 30 minutes and a few months.

the problem is that you don't print out the months (:

here, there is your script with the months included:

// this is your start date
$date_expire = "2014-09-12 23:59:59";
// build a DateTime instance from it
$date = new DateTime($date_expire);
// another instance for the date of NOW
$now =  new DateTime();
// print the difference with %m (months) included
echo $date->diff($now)->format("%m months, %d days, %H hours and %i minutes");