Try this please
gmdate("H:i:s", $diff%86400)
Best Regards
Farzan Dalaee
> On Oct 7, 2013, at 2:12, Jim Giner <jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/6/2013 6:36 PM, Farzan Dalaee wrote:
>> You should use gmdate() if you want to how many hours left to expire
>> $time_left = gmdate("H:i:s",$diff);
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Farzan Dalaee
>>
>>> On Oct 7, 2013, at 1:49, Jim Giner <jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I always hate dealing with date/time stuff in php - never get it even close
>>> until an hour or two goes by....
>>>
>>> anyway
>>>
>>> I have this:
>>>
>>> // get two timestamp values
>>> $exp_time = $_COOKIE[$applid."expire"];
>>> $curr_time = time();
>>> // get the difference
>>> $diff = $exp_time - $curr_time;
>>> // produce a display time of the diff
>>> $time_left = date("h:i:s",$diff);
>>>
>>> Currently the results are:
>>> exp_time is 06:55:07
>>> curr_time is 06:12:03
>>> the diff is 2584
>>> All of these are correct.
>>>
>>> BUT time_left is 07:43:04 when it should be only "00:43:04".
>>>
>>> So - where is the hour value of '07' coming from?? And how do I get this
>>> right?
>>>
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> Thanks for the quick response, but why do I want to show the time in GMT?
> However, I did try it, changing the 'time_left' calc to use "gmdate". Now
> instead of a 7 for hours I have a 12.
>
> exp 07:34:52
> curr 06:40:14
> diff 3158
> left is 12:52:38
>
> The 52:38 is the correct value, but not the 12.
>
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