这是我的职责。所需PHP>=5.3.4。它使用DateTime类。非常快，很快，可以区分两个日期，甚至所谓的“开始时间”。

if(function_exists('grk_Datetime_Since') === FALSE){
    function grk_Datetime_Since($From, $To='', $Prefix='', $Suffix=' ago', $Words=array()){
        #   Est-ce qu'on calcul jusqu'à un moment précis ? Probablement pas, on utilise maintenant
        if(empty($To) === TRUE){
            $To = time();
        }

        #   On va s'assurer que $From est numérique
        if(is_int($From) === FALSE){
            $From = strtotime($From);
        };

        #   On va s'assurer que $To est numérique
        if(is_int($To) === FALSE){
            $To = strtotime($To);
        }

        #   On a une erreur ?
        if($From === FALSE OR $From === -1 OR $To === FALSE OR $To === -1){
            return FALSE;
        }

        #   On va créer deux objets de date
        $From = new DateTime(@date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $From), new DateTimeZone('GMT'));
        $To   = new DateTime(@date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $To), new DateTimeZone('GMT'));

        #   On va calculer la différence entre $From et $To
        if(($Diff = $From->diff($To)) === FALSE){
            return FALSE;
        }

        #   On va merger le tableau des noms (par défaut, anglais)
        $Words = array_merge(array(
            'year'      => 'year',
            'years'     => 'years',
            'month'     => 'month',
            'months'    => 'months',
            'week'      => 'week',
            'weeks'     => 'weeks',
            'day'       => 'day',
            'days'      => 'days',
            'hour'      => 'hour',
            'hours'     => 'hours',
            'minute'    => 'minute',
            'minutes'   => 'minutes',
            'second'    => 'second',
            'seconds'   => 'seconds'
        ), $Words);

        #   On va créer la chaîne maintenant
        if($Diff->y > 1){
            $Text = $Diff->y.' '.$Words['years'];
        } elseif($Diff->y == 1){
            $Text = '1 '.$Words['year'];
        } elseif($Diff->m > 1){
            $Text = $Diff->m.' '.$Words['months'];
        } elseif($Diff->m == 1){
            $Text = '1 '.$Words['month'];
        } elseif($Diff->d > 7){
            $Text = ceil($Diff->d/7).' '.$Words['weeks'];
        } elseif($Diff->d == 7){
            $Text = '1 '.$Words['week'];
        } elseif($Diff->d > 1){
            $Text = $Diff->d.' '.$Words['days'];
        } elseif($Diff->d == 1){
            $Text = '1 '.$Words['day'];
        } elseif($Diff->h > 1){
            $Text = $Diff->h.' '.$Words['hours'];
        } elseif($Diff->h == 1){
            $Text = '1 '.$Words['hour'];
        } elseif($Diff->i > 1){
            $Text = $Diff->i.' '.$Words['minutes'];
        } elseif($Diff->i == 1){
            $Text = '1 '.$Words['minute'];
        } elseif($Diff->s > 1){
            $Text = $Diff->s.' '.$Words['seconds'];
        } else {
            $Text = '1 '.$Words['second'];
        }

        return $Prefix.$Text.$Suffix;
    }
}

我更喜欢使用date_create和date_diff对象。

代码：

$date1 = date_create("2007-03-24");
$date2 = date_create("2009-06-26");

$dateDifference = date_diff($date1, $date2)->format('%y years, %m months and %d days');

echo $dateDifference;

输出：

2 years, 3 months and 2 days

有关更多信息，请阅读PHP date_diff手册

根据手册date_diff是的别名日期时间：：diff（）

前段时间，我编写了一个format_date函数，因为它提供了许多关于日期的选项：

function format_date($date, $type, $seperator="-")
{
    if($date)
    {
        $day = date("j", strtotime($date));
        $month = date("n", strtotime($date));
        $year = date("Y", strtotime($date));
        $hour = date("H", strtotime($date));
        $min = date("i", strtotime($date));
        $sec = date("s", strtotime($date));

        switch($type)
        {
            case 0:  $date = date("Y".$seperator."m".$seperator."d",mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year)); break;
            case 1:  $date = date("D, F j, Y",mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year)); break;
            case 2:  $date = date("d".$seperator."m".$seperator."Y",mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year)); break;
            case 3:  $date = date("d".$seperator."M".$seperator."Y",mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year)); break;
            case 4:  $date = date("d".$seperator."M".$seperator."Y h:i A",mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year)); break;
            case 5:  $date = date("m".$seperator."d".$seperator."Y",mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year)); break;
            case 6:  $date = date("M",mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year)); break;
            case 7:  $date = date("Y",mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year)); break;
            case 8:  $date = date("j",mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year)); break;
            case 9:  $date = date("n",mktime($hour, $min, $sec, $month, $day, $year)); break;
            case 10: 
                     $diff = abs(strtotime($date) - strtotime(date("Y-m-d h:i:s"))); 
                     $years = floor($diff / (365*60*60*24));
                     $months = floor(($diff - $years * 365*60*60*24) / (30*60*60*24));
                     $days = floor(($diff - $years * 365*60*60*24 - $months*30*60*60*24)/ (60*60*24));
                     $date = $years . " years, " . $months . " months, " . $days . "days";
        }
    }
    return($date);
}    

查看以下链接。这是迄今为止我找到的最好的答案

function dateDiff ($d1, $d2) {

    // Return the number of days between the two dates:    
    return round(abs(strtotime($d1) - strtotime($d2))/86400);

} // end function dateDiff

当你通过日期参数。函数使用PHP ABS（）绝对值始终返回正数作为两者之间的天数日期。请记住，两个日期之间的天数不是包括两个日期。因此，如果您正在寻找天数由输入日期之间的所有日期表示，您需要向该函数的结果添加一（1）。例如，差异（由上述函数返回）2013-02-09和2013-02-14之间的值为5。但天数或日期范围2013-02-09-2013-02-14表示的日期为6。

http://www.bizinfosys.com/php/date-difference.html

我在PHP5.2中遇到了同样的问题，并用MySQL解决了这个问题。可能并不是你想要的，但这会奏效，并返回天数：

$datediff_q = $dbh->prepare("SELECT DATEDIFF(:date2, :date1)");
$datediff_q->bindValue(':date1', '2007-03-24', PDO::PARAM_STR);
$datediff_q->bindValue(':date2', '2009-06-26', PDO::PARAM_STR);
$datediff = ($datediff_q->execute()) ? $datediff_q->fetchColumn(0) : false;

此处有更多信息http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_datediff

<?php
    $today = strtotime("2011-02-03 00:00:00");
    $myBirthDate = strtotime("1964-10-30 00:00:00");
    printf("Days since my birthday: ", ($today - $myBirthDate)/60/60/24);
?>