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Difference between two times with getDateTime? Or how to convert to timestamp?

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DrenDran:

I have dates that are in the format getDateTime gives.
How can I find out how far these are from the current getDateTime value?

Demian:

It seems to be in plain text (04/11/12 16:13:26) so shouldn't basic math work? I guess you should classify each set of numbers as date, month, year, etc. but that shouldn't be too hard?

DrenDran:

--- Quote from: Demian on April 11, 2012, 09:11:37 AM ---It seems to be in plain text (04/11/12 16:13:26) so shouldn't basic math work?I guess you should classify each set of numbers as date, month, year, etc. but that shouldn't be too hard?

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I was origionally just gonna get the date by having some code that subStringed the area between the two slashes, and then compare those.
But then I realized it'd get a lot more complicated, adding in months, accounting for the fact each month has a different amount of days, adding in years, leap years, etc.
So I figured there was probably a prebuilt function somewhere I could use.

Treynolds416:

Well how accurate does it need to be? You could very easily get an output that says "2 months, 6 days, 10 hours, 21 minutes, 34 seconds", but you don't know whether the month is February or not.

Besides, I personally doubt that there is a prebuilt function, you might as well start working on one of your own.

DrenDran:

--- Quote from: Treynolds416 on April 11, 2012, 06:22:36 PM ---Well how accurate does it need to be? You could very easily get an output that says "2 months, 6 days, 10 hours, 21 minutes, 34 seconds", but you don't know whether the month is February or not.

Besides, I personally doubt that there is a prebuilt function, you might as well start working on one of your own.

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It'd be easist if I got it in a difference of seconds, then I could be like
if(timeDiffFunc(%oldtime,getDateTime()) > 60*60*24*7)

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