{"id":16620,"date":"2022-10-21T17:51:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-reducing-arrays-of-floats-from-datetime-closed\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:21:48","slug":"solved-reducing-arrays-of-floats-from-datetime-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-reducing-arrays-of-floats-from-datetime-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Reducing arrays of floats from datetime [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-54207262\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"54207262\" data-parentid=\"54206552\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>So your problem was of using <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/class.dateinterval.php\">dateinterval<\/a> object to get the time difference. But them you just add the hours and minutes up but this is &#8220;base 60&#8221; (as 60 minutes in 1 hour) so you cannot add them up with <code>+<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong>: 1 hour and 15 minute (<code>1.15<\/code>) plus 1 hour and 45 minute (<code>1.45<\/code>) are <code>2.6<\/code> numerically speaking but 3 hours (as from your comment). <\/p>\n<p>In order to solve that you need to convert to numerical. You can use the following function:<\/p>\n<pre><code>function convertToDecimal($hours) {\n    $parts = explode('.', (string)$hours);\n    $min = (count($parts) == 2) ? $parts[1] \/ 60 : 0;\n    return $parts[0] + $min;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>when calling <code>convertToDecimal(1.15)<\/code> will return <code>1.25<\/code>. add that to you reduce function as: <\/p>\n<pre><code>carry[$item[\"recruiter\"]] += convertToDecimal($item[\"hours\"]);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Hint &#8211; asking question properly is not easy task &#8211; now that you have your solution try edit your question so it will include all (and <strong>only<\/strong>) the data needed to unnderstand your problem and reproduce it.<\/p>\n<p>Better solution include change the way you extract the time difference. Consider the following method:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$shiftStartTime = \"2019-01-11T07:00:00\";\n$shiftEndTime = \"2019-01-11T15:15:00\";\n\n$startLong = (new DateTime($shiftStartTime))-&gt;getTimestamp();\n$endLong = (new DateTime($shiftEndTime))-&gt;getTimestamp();;\n\necho ($endLong - $startLong) \/ (60 * 60);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This will give you <code>8.25<\/code> as you counting the second and not setting the hours using DateInterval.<\/p>\n<p>Hope that helps!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">4<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Reducing arrays of floats from datetime [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] So your problem was of using dateinterval object to get the time difference. But them you just add the hours and minutes up but this is &#8220;base 60&#8221; (as 60 minutes in 1 hour) so you cannot add them up with +. 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