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Posted by Erwin Moller on 11/11/05 18:34
el_roachmeister@yahoo.com wrote:
> I am looking for a script that can report the number of days since
> 2000. It should handle leap years but I am not worried about accuracy
> to the hour/minute or seconds. I am writing a calendar program and need
> a reference point to base all my dates from. So I picked 1/1/2000.
Hi,
I think the most simple way is using Unix timestamps
(from http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.time.php)
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time() -> Return current Unix timestamp
Returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix
Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).
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So code something like this:
1) Get the Unixtime for 1/1/2000 (you can calculate that only one time, and
use the number from then on hardcoded if you want)
2) Get the Unixtime for now: use the function time()
3) get the difference
4) divide it by the number of seconds in a day.
You will always get a 'dayfraction' this way, and have to do some rounding.
How you do the rounding is up to your taste of course.
(Eg, if the difference between now and 1/1/2000 is X and a half day, do you
want to work with X or X+1 ?)
Hope this helps. :-)
Good luck!
Regards,
Erwin Moller
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