Finding the diffrence between two dates.

[Ramesiv]

I'm currently using this little block of code here to find the diffrence (in days) between the current date, and the date of the new year

$date_new_year = strtotime("1 January 2006");
$current_date = time();
$days_left = $date_new_year - $days_left;
print "Days left until new year's: ";
print date("d", $days_left);

I'm not sure if this is valid, is there a function that allows me to get the exact days, months, years, hours, minutes and even seconds from a specifc date to the current date? Thanks for reading.

[devinemke]

$start_date = '2005-12-31';
$end_date = '2006-06-03';

$start_ts = strtotime($start_date);
$end_ts = strtotime($end_date);
$count = 0;
while ($start_ts < $end_ts)
{
$start_ts = strtotime(date('Y-m-d', $start_ts) . ' +1 day');
$count++;
}
echo $count;

[Velox Letum]

<?php
$date_new_year = strtotime("1 January 2006");
$current_date = time();
$days_left = $date_new_year - $current_date;
echo 'Days left until new years: ' . $days_left / 60 / 60 / 24;
?>

If you want hours and such instead of a decimal you'll have to calculate it out further.

[devinemke]

...echo 'Days left until new years: ' . $days_left / 60 / 60 / 24;
...and what about the days of the year that are not 60x60x24 seconds long?