Help with a php function

[nfs2]

This is somewhat related to my last post, but its about something sppecific so i figured id make a new thread.

The following function is supposed to return how long ago the entered time was. For example, if i enter march 2, it should say 1 month ago.

Anyways, when i enter the current unix timestamp, it tells me it was 36 years ago.

Here's the function

function timetext($seconds){
 $day=date("j",$seconds)-1;
 $month=date("n",$seconds)-1;
 $year=date("Y",$seconds)-1970; 
 $hour=date("G",$seconds)-1;
 $minute=(int) date("i",$seconds);
 $returnvalue=false;
 if($year){
 if($year==1) $return[]="one year"; else $return[]="$year years";
 }
 if($month){
 if($month==1) $return[]="one month"; else $return[]="$month months";
 }
 if($day){
 if($day==1) $return[]="a day"; else $return[]="$day days";
 }
 if($hour){
 if($hour==1) $return[]="one hour"; else $return[]="$hour hours";
 }
 if($minute&&$minute!=00){
 //if($minute==45){
 //$return[]="drie kwartier";
 //}else
 if($minute==30){
 $return[]="half an hour";
 //}elseif($minute==15){
//$return[]="een kwartier";
 }elseif($minute==1){
 $return[]="a minute";
 }else{
  $return[]="$minute minutes";
 }
 }
 for($i=0;$i<count($return);$i++){
 if(!$returnvalue){
 $returnvalue=$return[$i];
 }elseif($i<count($return)-1){
$returnvalue.= ", ".$return[$i];
 }else{
$returnvalue.= " and ".$return[$i];
 }
 }
 return $returnvalue;
}

Now, the unix timestamp is 10 digits long, but the example i found for this function is only 7.. What kind of timestamp is only 7 digits long?

Anyways, does anyone know how to use this code? There's zero information online about it.

[coopster]

UNIX timestamps are returned using the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT). 2006 - 1970 is 36 years lapsed.

[nfs2]

Thanks, i figured out that i had to subtract the timestamp from the current timestamp, then pass the result through the function.