Question

I have about 1000 Android generated timestamps in a text file. Now, I need to check if the difference between two consecutive timestamps is lesser than threshold value. If yes, I need to add this TIME in MINUTES to a variable continously… If not, add the time in MINUTES in another variable…

How do I convert the timestamps into actual time . ONLY using PHP ! Or is there another way to do this without converting it to time? (because timestamps are random, just adding the consecutive differences does not help )

Answer 1

Assuming the timestamps are regular millisecond-resolution timestamps, then it’s just a matter of feeding them into PHP’s date() format, divided by 1000:

e.g.:

$str = date('r', 1298083876650/1000); // Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:51:16 -0600