substract timediff from time value - mysql

Question

This is my table:
+----------+---------------------+
| estimate | timestamp |
+----------+---------------------+
| 05:00:00 | 2015-12-02 13:35:14 |
+----------+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
I am trying to implement a scheduled job to create extra automatic rows every hour to substract the time that has past from the estimated time.
I am able to start the scheduled job and use timediff to calculate the time that has passed since, but i am unable to substract the timediff from the estimated time.
I am guessing that mysql doesn't care much that i want the estimated time column to be stated as a period of time. instead, it just shows me a time without the date.
select timediff(now(),timestamp) from t1;
this gives me the time difference that i need:
+---------------------------+
| timediff(now(),timestamp) |
+---------------------------+
| 00:27:03 |
+---------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
but when i do this:
select estimate-timediff(now(),timestamp) as timeleft from t1;
the result is:
+----------+
| timeleft |
+----------+
| 46568 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
what i would like to get:
+----------+
| timeleft |
+----------+
| 04:32:57 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
The times may be a little off in my example obviously because of the timediff() but hopefully you understand my issue. There must be an easy solution that i'm missing but i've spent half a day googleing to get to this point but timediff just won't cut me some slack.
Please and thank you!
PS. I haven't found the solution yet but i think i found what might cause the problem. Obvioysly the substraction is done by using absolute values 'estimate' column doesn't use seconds as it's absolute value and the result is completely wrong.
mysql> select abs(estimate) from t1;
+----------+
| abs(estimate) |
+----------+
| 50000 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
and
mysql> select abs(timediff(now(),timestamp)) from t1;
+--------------------------------+
| abs(timediff(now(),timestamp)) |
+--------------------------------+
| 2318 |
+--------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
So is there an easy way to force mysql to use seconds on a time column? or is something wrong with my table and the estimate format is wrong?

Answer 1

use timediff like that :-
timediff(estimate,timediff(now(),timestamp))
your query :-
select timediff(estimate,timediff(now(),timestamp))
as timeleft from t1;