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Time remaining calculations
Posted by: Andrew Germishuys
Date: October 03, 2012 01:15PM

Good day all :)

I've been battling with a few calculations on dates / times, and have not made much headway with any of the hundreds of results I've visited from searching.

I'm working on a site where an item will be available for a certain amount of time (stored in the DB as days) from a creation date (stored as a timestamp). So, the expiry date would be creation date plus number of days.

What I am looking to do, is show time remaining, in days, hours, minutes, until the end of that 'expiry' day.

I have to use PHP 5.2, so am limited slightly there.

For days remaining, I've tried:
$VarDaysRemaining = round(abs(strtotime($VarCreateDate)-strtotime('+' . $VarCampaignLength . ' day', time()))/86400);

I did read that this gives an answer a day short.

Any pointers would be a great help.
Thank you in advance.

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