How to compare 2 timestamp in php

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Hi friends,

I need a help on timestamp compare wherein I have a timestamp time2=2013/04/06T13:24:00Z and I want to compare this with current timestamp. I need this comparision to check if the time is less then 10 minutes.

if ((time1-time2)<600)
{
echo 'valid time';
//do some stuff
}
else
{
echo 'time expired';
}

Here time1 will be current timestamp and time2 will be my given timestamp and I am taking 600 as 10 minutes.

Is there any way to compare timestamp for this type of format...Please suggest if you know

Thankyou.

Posted 5-Apr-13 22:07pm

Phionix11

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Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-05T22:12:00

Solution 1

Pretty good article - Comparing Dates in PHP[^].

Posted 5-Apr-13 22:12pm

Abhinav S

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Thomas Daniels 6-Apr-13 5:05am

+5!

Phionix11 6-Apr-13 6:44am

Its good article but It did'nt work for me. I want to check time whether the incoming request is within 10 minutes range. so that i can know that request is older so expired.

fuiboo 18-Apr-13 19:34pm

That's a perfectly fine answer to your question.
The improtant part in the link is the "strtotime" function.
That function converts your 2013/04/06T13:24:00Z timestamp to a UNIX-Timestamp which is easier to compare to topical time() the way you want it to do.