Question

I have a table having two fields start_date and end_date. I need to display the data in this format

4 days 12 hours remaining.

id      start_date           end_date
1       2012-12-07 12:00:00  2012-12-14 12:00:00 

How can i achieve this. Using now() of mysql to find remaing days and hours. I mean today is 2012-12-10 so i need to find how much difference from today to the end date.

Answer 1

This might help you:

SELECT
    FLOOR(HOUR(t) / 24) AS days,
    HOUR(t) % 24 hours
FROM (
    SELECT TIMEDIFF('2012-12-07 12:00:00', '2012-12-14 18:00:00') t
) AS t1

In the nested query you get the difference (in hours)