Difference between dates

Question

I want to calculate the difference between two times, one of which is the current time, and the other is just in the format HH:MM, always in the future.

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Answer 1

If you're on PHP 5.3+, use PHP's DateTime:

$d1 = new DateTime('14:52:10');
$d2 = new DateTime('12:12:10');

$diff = $d1->diff( $d2 ); 
var_dump( $diff );