Question

i am working in php. i have a table EVENT. in which there are three fields, EventID,EventName and EventTime.

i have used datetime format for EventTime field.

now i want to write a query which return difference between current time and time of events.

I want my result to print like this:- eventID occurred 1 hour 20 minutes ago.

please suggest me how can i do this.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Try this one –

SELECT EventID, TIME_FORMAT(TIMEDIFF(NOW(), EventTime), 'occured %H hour %i minutes ago') diff FROM table;

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SELECT EventID, CONCAT('occured ', hours, IF(hours > 1, ' hours ', ' hour '), minutes, IF(minutes > 1, ' minutes', ' minute'), ' ago') FROM (
  SELECT EventID, 
    @diff:=TIMEDIFF(NOW(), EventTime),
    EXTRACT(HOUR FROM @diff) hours,
    EXTRACT(MINUTE FROM @diff) minutes
  FROM EVENT) t;