How can Unix timestamps be effectively used to calculate time intervals in PHP?

To calculate time intervals using Unix timestamps in PHP, you can subtract one timestamp from another to get the difference in seconds. You can then convert this difference into the desired time unit (minutes, hours, days, etc.) using PHP's date and strtotime functions. 

$timestamp1 = strtotime('2022-01-01 00:00:00');
$timestamp2 = strtotime('2022-01-02 12:00:00');

$timeDifference = $timestamp2 - $timestamp1;

$minutesDifference = floor($timeDifference / 60);
$hoursDifference = floor($timeDifference / 3600);
$daysDifference = floor($timeDifference / 86400);

echo "Time difference in minutes: $minutesDifference\n";
echo "Time difference in hours: $hoursDifference\n";
echo "Time difference in days: $daysDifference\n";

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Unix timestamps time intervals PHP date functions calculations

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