Calculate the difference between date/times in PHP

Question

I have a Date object ( from Pear) and want to subtract another Date object to get the time difference in seconds.

I have tried a few things but the first just gave

Answer 1

Still gave somewhat wrong values but considering I have an old version of PEAR Date around, maybe it works for you or gives you an hint on how to fix :)

setTZByID("US/Hawaii");
  $target->convertTZByID("America/Sao_Paulo");

  $diff = new Date_Span($target,$now);

  echo "Now (localtime): {$now->format("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")} \n\n";
  echo "Target (localtime): {$target->format("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")} \n\n";
  echo $diff->format("Diff: %g seconds => %C");
?>