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# The DateInterval class

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)

## Introduction

Represents a date interval.

A date interval stores either a fixed amount of time (in years, months, days, hours etc) or a relative time string in the format that DateTime's constructor supports.

## Class synopsis

DateInterval {
/* Properties */
public integer $y ;
public integer $m ;
public integer $d ;
public integer $h ;
public integer $i ;
public integer $s ;
public integer $invert ;
public mixed $days ;
/* Methods */
public __construct ( string `$interval_spec` )
public static DateInterval createFromDateString ( string `$time` )
public string format ( string `$format` )
}

## Properties

y

  Number of years.

m

  Number of months.

d

  Number of days.

h

  Number of hours.

i

  Number of minutes.

s

  Number of seconds.

invert

  Is 1 if the interval represents a negative time period and 0 otherwise. See DateInterval::format().

days

  If the DateInterval object was created by DateTime::diff(), then this is the total number of days between the start and end dates. Otherwise, days will be `FALSE`.

  Before PHP 5.4.20/5.5.4 instead of `FALSE` you will receive -99999 upon accessing the property.

## Table of Contents

- DateInterval::__construct — Creates a new DateInterval object
- DateInterval::createFromDateString — Sets up a DateInterval from the relative parts of the string
- DateInterval::format — Formats the interval

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