Re: time elapsed

On 28 Feb, 16:45, Jerry <Je...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a MySQL table with two timestamp fields, in MySQL's
default format, e.g. 2008-02-28 10:33:51

How can I then compare the two in order to get the elapsed time
between the two values? Does php (or MySQL) have any convenience
functions to do that? Or do I have to start with strptime() and
work it out from there?

Thanks again to everybody for all the replies.

In fact the format 2008-02-28 10:33:51 is not how MySQL stores
timestamps. That is just one format that it can use to display it.

Possibly DATEDIFF() or TIMEDIFF()

You'll find a good source of answers in the manual:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html
.

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