Time difference with filemtime

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April 28th, 2003, 08:38 AM

Chrissie

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Time difference with filemtime

I'd like to know how many minutes ago a file has been modified.

PHP Code:


		
			
 $filemod = filemtime("headlines.txt");

echo date("Y-m-d H:i", $filemod);

Getting the date it has been modified is easy. But I'm having troubles in getting the time-difference in minutes between now date("Y-m-d H:i") and the file date....can anyone help me out? This seems to be very easy..it's annoying me for almost an hour now

April 28th, 2003, 01:16 PM

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PHP Code:


		
			
/****************************

Get timestamps

****************************/

$filemod = filemtime( 'headlines.txt' );

$now = timestamp();

/****************************

Get seconds

****************************/

$seconds = $now - $filemod;

/****************************

Make Minutes

****************************/

$minutes = floor( $seconds / ( int )60 );

/****************************

Get Left Over Seconds

****************************/

$left = $minutes * ( int )60;

$a_seconds = $seconds - $left;

/****************************

Output Message

****************************/

echo( 'File last modifed ' . $minutes . ' minute(s) and ' . $a_seconds . ' second(s) ago.' );

Untested but should work. You can take it a step further by doing the calculation for days also.

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April 28th, 2003, 01:28 PM

Chrissie

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Thanks!

Thanks a lot...with time(); instead of timestamp(); I've got it working now...I hate time-programming, time-stamps and time-zones...

April 28th, 2003, 01:36 PM

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Lol - timestamp() - I am losing it...

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