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Subtract time in PHP

I have been looking for an answer for a few hours now, but I can't find one.

I'm writing a simple script. The user sets their work start and end time. So, for example, somebody is working from 8:00 to 16:00. How can I subtract this time to see how long the person has been working?

I was experimenting with strtotime(); but without success...

Solution

  • A bit nicer is the following:

    
$a = new DateTime('08:00');
$b = new DateTime('16:00');
$interval = $a->diff($b);

echo $interval->format("%H");

    That will give you the difference in hours.