php中DateTime、diff

转自：http://www.cnblogs.com/firstForEver/p/5239773.html

手册地址：http://php.net/manual/en/dateinterval.format.php

$january = new DateTime('2010-01-01');
$february = new DateTime('2010-02-01');
$interval = $january->diff($february);

// %a will output the total number of days.
echo $interval->format('%R%a total days'). '<br/>';// +31 total days

// While %d will only output the number of days not already covered by the
// month.
echo $interval->format('%m month, %d days');// 1 month, 0 days

format格式化参数：

The following characters are recognized in the  format parameter string. Each format character must be prefixed by a percent sign ( %).

formatcharacter	Description	Example values
%	Literal %	%
Y	Years, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03
y	Years, numeric	1, 3
M	Months, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03, 12
m	Months, numeric	1, 3, 12
D	Days, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03, 31
d	Days, numeric	1, 3, 31
a	Total number of days as a result of a DateTime::diff() or (unknown)otherwise	4, 18, 8123
H	Hours, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03, 23
h	Hours, numeric	1, 3, 23
I	Minutes, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03, 59
i	Minutes, numeric	1, 3, 59
S	Seconds, numeric, at least 2 digits with leading 0	01, 03, 57
s	Seconds, numeric	1, 3, 57
R	Sign "-" when negative, "+" when positive	-, +
r	Sign "-" when negative, empty when positive	-,