Re: calculating time-fields?

Michael,

PHP has a great set of time tools

http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php

you can do math on your timestamps and format them any way you want
with date().

Look at strtotime() also.

Dig in! Everything you need is sure to be at hand

Regards,
Don

On May 17, 4:17 am, "miv...@mivogt.net" <miv...@mivogt.net> wrote:
> HI group,
>
> I need a bit of help please ... I am using a model with 2 fields of
> the time type to store the time of start and end of a job hh:mm
> format.
> Now I would like to get the amount of minutes between StartTime and
> EndTime to be stored in the duration field.
> Is there a cake built in method to aclc the time difference or is
> there an easy way to do so using php ...(as in ms excel I might use to
> time fields and substract em from each other)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Michael

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