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| From | "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> |
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| Subject | Re: Days until Christmas |
| Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2017 01:38:40 +0200 |
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On 27.10.2017 at 00:56, Mark Lloyd wrote:
> On 10/26/2017 12:29 PM, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't
>>
>> (new DateTime('now'))
>> ->diff(new DateTime('2017-12-25T00:00'))
>> ->format('%a days until Christmas')
>>
>> suffice? Okay, that rounds down, and your solution rounds up, but that
>> could be catered to.
>
> I've tried this and it seems to be working OK. I may be able to use it
> except I prefer a result that is more precise than days.
>
> One odd thing is that when I looked at the PHP documentation for
> DateTime -> format, it says it uses the same parameters as the "date"
> function, these DO NOT use % signs. 'a' itself shows am or pm. Where did
> you get %a for DateTime -> format?
DateTime::diff(DateTime) returns a DateInterval (not a DateTime) object,
and its ::format() method expects a somewhat different format[1]. If
you want more detailed information, you can use something like this:
->format('%a days, %h hours, %i minutes and %s seconds …')
[1] <http://www.php.net/manual/en/dateinterval.format.php>
--
Christoph M. Becker
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