Calculate months, years and days between two given dates as timestamp [duplicate]

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i am trying to calculate years and months and days between two given dates in PHP.

i am also using timestamp of those date. is there any way to calculate years and months and

days from difference of those time stamp.

for example first date is 2 Jan, 2008. and second one is 5 July, 2012. and result is 4 Years 5 monts and 3 days.

i am working on timestamp as date input and want to know that is there any function available which directly calculate above things by two input timestamp

Answer 1

You could use the DateTime object for that (please note the missing "," in the datetime constructor).

$datetime1 = new DateTime('2 Jan 2008');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('5 July 2012');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%y years %m months and %d days');

Answer 2

You can do this pretty easily with DateTime:

$date1 = new DateTime("2008-01-02");
$date2 = new DateTime("2012-07-05");
$diff = $date1->diff($date2);

echo "difference " . $diff->y . " years, " . $diff->m." months, ".$diff->d." days "

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