{"id":1370,"date":"2010-05-23T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/liquidicity\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:57:24","slug":"handy-php-function-time-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/handy-php-function-time-breakdown","title":{"rendered":"Handy PHP function: Time breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/09_12_06_geoffdev_790x100.jpg\" alt=\"Develop with Geoff at GoSquared\" title=\"Develop with Geoff at GoSquared\" width=\"790\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Due to the nature of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/livestats\/\">web apps<\/a> we build, we&#8217;re constantly working with time-related logic, and have built up a small collection of functions to help ease the pain with these calculations. 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