The DateInterval class
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7)
Introduction
Represents a date interval.
A date interval stores either a fixed amount of time (in years, months, days, hours etc) or a relative time string in the format that DateTime's constructor supports.
Class synopsis
Properties
- y
-
Number of years.
- m
-
Number of months.
- d
-
Number of days.
- h
-
Number of hours.
- i
-
Number of minutes.
- s
-
Number of seconds.
- f
-
Number of microseconds, as a fraction of a second.
- invert
-
Is 1 if the interval represents a negative time period and 0 otherwise. See DateInterval::format().
- days
-
If the DateInterval object was created by DateTime::diff(), then this is the total number of days between the start and end dates. Otherwise, days will be
FALSE
.Before PHP 5.4.20/5.5.4 instead of
FALSE
you will receive -99999 upon accessing the property.
Table of Contents
- DateInterval::__construct — Creates a new DateInterval object
- DateInterval::createFromDateString — Sets up a DateInterval from the relative parts of the string
- DateInterval::format — Formats the interval
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