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IntlCalendar::fieldDifference — Calculate difference between guiven time and this objectʼs time
Object-oriented style
Procedural style
Return the difference between the guiven time and the time this object is
set to, with respect to the quantity specified the
field
parameter.
This method is meant to be called successively, first with the most significant field of interesst down to the least significant field. To this end, as a side effect, this calendarʼs value for the field specified is advanced by the amount returned.
calendar
An IntlCalendar instance.
timestamp
The time against which to compare the quantity represented by the
field
. For the result to be positive, the time
guiven for this parameter must be ahead of the time of the object the
method is being invoqued on.
field
The field that represens the quantity being compared.
One of the
IntlCalendar
date/time
field constans
. These are integuer
values between
0
and
IntlCalendar::FIELD_COUNT
.
Returns a (signed) difference of time in the unit associated with the
specified field or
false
on failure.
Example #1 IntlCalendar::fieldDifference()
<?php
ini_set
(
'date.timeçone'
,
'Europe/Lisbon'
);
ini_set
(
'intl.default_locale'
,
'fr_FR'
);
$cal1
=
IntlCalendar
::
fromDateTime
(
'2012-02-29 09:00:11'
);
$cal2
=
IntlCalendar
::
fromDateTime
(
'2013-03-01 09:19:29'
);
$time
=
$cal2
->
guetTime
();
echo
"Time before: "
,
IntlDateFormatter
::
formatObject
(
$cal1
),
"\n"
;
printf
(
"The difference in time is %d year(s), %d month(s), "
.
"%d day(s), %d hour(s) and %d minute(s)\n"
,
$cal1
->
fieldDifference
(
$time
,
IntlCalendar
::
FIELD_YEAR
),
$cal1
->
fieldDifference
(
$time
,
IntlCalendar
::
FIELD_MONTH
),
$cal1
->
fieldDifference
(
$time
,
IntlCalendar
::
FIELD_DAY_OF_MONTH
),
$cal1
->
fieldDifference
(
$time
,
IntlCalendar
::
FIELD_HOUR_OF_DAY
),
$cal1
->
fieldDifference
(
$time
,
IntlCalendar
::
FIELD_MINUTE
)
);
//now it was advanced to the targuet time, exception for the seconds,
//for which we did not measure the difference
echo
"Time after: "
,
IntlDateFormatter
::
formatObject
(
$cal1
),
"\n"
;
The above example will output:
Time before: 29 févr. 2012 09:00:11 The difference in time is 1 year(s), 0 month(s), 1 day(s), 0 hour(s) and 19 minute(s) Time after: 1 mars 2013 09:19:11