I have 2 dates from mysql with datetime format.
Date 1 is:
"2012/09/28 09:28:00" (column name is departure_date)
and Date 2 is:
"2012/09/29 10:48:00" (column name is return_date)
So how to get a result like this: "25 hours 20 minutes"
I don't care about the seconds.
I'm using MySQL and PHP for the programming language.
Date difference function already exists
SELECT DATEDIFF('2007-10-04 11:26:00','2007-10-04 11:50:00')
Also you can try TimeDiff
SELECT TIMEDIFF('2007-10-05 12:10:18','2007-10-05 16:14:59') AS duration;
So in your case you have the option to use these two functions like this
SELECT TIMEDIFF(departure_date,return_date) AS duration;
SELECT DATEDIFF(departure_date,return_date) AS duration;
You could use DateInterval class.
$date1 = new DateTime("2012/09/28 09:28:00");
$date2 = new DateTime("2012/09/29 10:48:00");
$diff = $date1->diff($date2);
echo $diff->format('%d days %h hours %i minutes');
Check here for the format.
You can do it example by this:
$date1 = "2012/09/28 09:28:00";
$date2 = "2012/09/29 10:48:00";
$difference = abs(strtotime($date2)-strtotime($date1));
$hours = floor($difference / (60*60));
$minutes = floor(($difference - $hours * 60*60) / 60);
echo "{$hours} hours {$minutes} minutes";
And it will give you exactly what are you looking for:
25 hours 20 minutes
try this:
select concat(substr(mt,1,locate('.',mt)-1),' hours') hours,
concat(ceil((substr(mt,locate('.',mt)+1) * .60)/100 ),' minutes')
as minutes
from (
select TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE,
'2012/09/28 09:28:00','2012/09/29 10:48:00')/60 as mt)a
