I\'m working with excel documents using PHP scripts and cannot determine what data type/format PT00H00M00S is, and subsequently I can\'t find a way to work with it without u
It's a time interval, where the P means period. You can use PHP's DateInterval() to parse the string.
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For example (example taken from the PHP documentation):
$interval = new DateInterval('P2Y4DT6H8M'); echo $interval->format('%d days');