php - Time remaining until specific time from current time of page load

Question

I have to admit that having not even tried to code this myself this question may be a annoying to some but I\'m very surprised that I wasn\'t able to find a good example on

Answer 1

I'd use the DateInterval and DateTime functions:

$now = new DateTime();
$future_date = new DateTime('2011-05-11 12:00:00');

$interval = $future_date->diff($now);

echo $interval->format("%a days, %h hours, %i minutes, %s seconds");

You'll need a version of PHP that's at least 5.3 to do it this way - otherwise, do what helloandre recommends.