Calculate number of hours , minutes and seconds between two dates in laravel

Question

Suppose we have to DateTime formatted date like this :

$started_at = '2016-07-05 12:29:16';
$ended_at = '2016-07-06 13:30:10';

Now I want to calculate number of hours , minutes and seconds of them like this :

15 hours and 50 minutes and 15 seconds

How Can I do that in simplest way in laravel and using Carbon.

Answer 1

Try this

$t1 = Carbon::parse('2016-07-05 12:29:16');
$t2 = Carbon::parse('2016-07-04 13:30:10');
$diff = $t1->diff($t2);

This will give you

DateInterval {#727
     +"y": 0,
     +"m": 0,
     +"d": 0,
     +"h": 22,
     +"i": 59,
     +"s": 6,
     +"weekday": 0,
     +"weekday_behavior": 0,
     +"first_last_day_of": 0,
     +"invert": 1,
     +"days": 0,
     +"special_type": 0,
     +"special_amount": 0,
     +"have_weekday_relative": 0,
     +"have_special_relative": 0,
   }