This package extends the features of PHP DateTime and DateTimeZone classes to ease the handling of times, time zones and time zone locations. Getting the UTC or local representation of a time, formatting the time to a predefined format, accessing common properties such as day, month, year, quarter and more has been made especially easy. Also, all instances can be used as strings.
Let's say that now is "2013-02-03 21:03:45" in Paris:
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
date_default_timezone_set('EST'); // set local time zone to Eastern Standard Time
$time = new DateTime('now', 'Europe/Paris');
echo $time; // 2013-02-03T21:03:45+0100
echo $time->utc; // 2013-02-03T20:03:45Z
echo $time->local; // 2013-02-03T15:03:45-0500
echo $time->utc->local; // 2013-02-03T15:03:45-0500
echo $time->utc->is_utc; // true
echo $time->utc->is_local; // false
echo $time->local->is_utc; // false
echo $time->local->is_local; // true
echo $time->is_dst; // false
echo $time->as_rss; // Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:03:45 +0100
echo $time->as_db; // 2013-02-03 21:03:45
echo $time->as_time; // 21:03:45
echo $time->utc->as_time; // 20:03:45
echo $time->local->as_time; // 15:03:45
echo $time->utc->local->as_time; // 15:03:45
echo $time->quarter; // 1
echo $time->week; // 5
echo $time->day; // 3
echo $time->minute; // 3
echo $time->is_monday; // false
echo $time->is_saturday; // true
echo $time->is_today; // true
echo $time->tomorrow; // 2013-02-04T00:00:00+0100
echo $time->tomorrow->is_future // true
echo $time->yesterday; // 2013-02-02T00:00:00+0100
echo $time->yesterday->is_past // true
echo $time->monday; // 2013-01-28T00:00:00+0100
echo $time->sunday; // 2013-02-03T00:00:00+0100
echo $time->timestamp; // 1359921825
echo $time; // 2013-02-03T21:03:45+0100
$time->timestamp += 3600 * 4;
echo $time; // 2013-02-04T01:03:45+0100
echo $time->zone; // Europe/Paris
echo $time->zone->offset; // 3600
echo $time->zone->location; // FR,48.86667,2.33333
echo $time->zone->location->latitude; // 48.86667
$time->zone = 'Asia/Tokyo';
echo $time; // 2013-02-04T09:03:45+0900
$time->hour += 72;
echo "Rendez-vous in 72 hours: $time"; // Rendez-vous in 72 hours: 2013-02-07T05:03:45+0900
Empty dates are also supported:
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
$time = new DateTime('0000-00-00', 'utc');
// or
$time = DateTime::none();
echo $time->is_empty; // true
echo $time->as_date; // 0000-00-00
echo $time->as_db; // 0000-00-00 00:00:00
echo $time; // ""
The implementation of the DateTime class is vastly inspired by Ruby's Time class.
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime:
$time = new DateTime('2014-01-06 11:11:11', 'utc'); // a monday at 11:11:11 UTC
echo $time->monday; // 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z
echo $time->tuesday; // 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z
echo $time->wednesday; // 2014-01-08T00:00:00Z
echo $time->thursday; // 2014-01-09T00:00:00Z
echo $time->friday; // 2014-01-10T00:00:00Z
echo $time->saturday; // 2014-01-11T00:00:00Z
echo $time->sunday; // 2014-01-12T00:00:00Z
$time->monday->is_monday; // true
$time->tuesday->is_tuesday; // true
$time->wednesday->is_wednesday; // true
$time->thursday->is_thursday; // true
$time->friday->is_friday; // true
$time->saturday->is_saturday; // true
$time->sunday->is_sunday; // true
$time->monday->is_tuesday; // false
$time->tuesday->is_wednesday; // false
$time->wednesday->is_thursday; // false
$time->thursday->is_friday; // false
$time->friday->is_saturday; // false
$time->saturday->is_sunday; // false
$time->sunday->is_monday; // false
$time->monday->weekday; // 1
$time->tuesday->weekday; // 2
$time->wednesday->weekday; // 3
$time->thursday->weekday; // 4
$time->friday->weekday; // 5
$time->saturday->weekday; // 6
$time->sunday->weekday; // 7
DateTime::now()
returns a new instance with the current local time and the local time zone. Subsequent calls return equal times, event if they are minutes apart. now actually refers to the REQUEST_TIME
or, if it is not available, to the first time the method was invoked.
On the other hand, DateTime::right_now()
returns a new instance with the real current local time and the local time zone.
The following example demonstrates the difference:
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
$now = DateTime::now();
sleep(2);
$now == DateTime::now(); // true
$now == DateTime::right_now(); // false
DateTime Instances are compared using standard comparison operations:
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
$d1 = DateTime::now();
$d2 = DateTime::now();
$d1 == $d2; // true
$d1 >= $d2; // true
$d1 <= $d2; // true
$d1 != $d2; // false
$d1 > $d2; // false
$d1 < $d2; // false
$d2->second++;
$d1 != $d2; // true
$d1 < $d2; // true
$d2 > $d1; // true
$d1 == $d2; // false
$d1 >= $d2; // false
$d2 <= $d1; // false
To determine if an instance is between two other instances you just need two comparisons:
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
$now = DateTime::now();
$now > $now->yesterday && $now < $now->tomorrow; // true
To determine which instance is the most recent, or the most late, simply use PHP's min()
and max()
functions:
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
$now = DateTime::now();
$yesterday = $now->yesterday;
$tomorrow = $now->tomorrow;
$yesterday === min($now, $yesterday, $tomorrow); // true
$tomorrow === max($now, $yesterday, $tomorrow); // true
Starting with v1.1.0, DateTime instances implements the JsonSerializable interface and are serialized into ISO-8601 strings.
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
$date = new DateTime("2014-10-23 13:50:10", "Europe/Paris");
echo json_encode([ 'date' => $date ]);
// {"date":"2014-10-23T13:50:10+0200"}
The change()
method is used to change multiple properties at once.
Note: Values exceeding ranges are added to their parent values.
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
$date = DateTime::now()->change([ 'year' => 2015, 'month' => 5, 'hour' => 12 ]);
Using the $cascade
parameter, setting the hour resets the minute and second to 0, and setting the minute resets the second to 0.
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
echo DateTime::from("2015-05-05 12:13:14")->change([ 'hour' => 13 ], true); // 2015-05-05 13:00:00
The with()
method is similar to the change()
method as it is used to define multiple properties at once, the difference is that the method creates a new instance, leaving the original instance intact.
<?php
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
$now = DateTime::now();
$next_year = $now->with([ 'year' => $now->year + 1 ]);
spl_object_hash($now) == spl_object_hash($next_year); // false
Localized formatting is outside of this package scope, still a localizer can be provided to the DateTime class to localize its instances, but of course the result depends on the implementation.
The following example demonstrates how to localize instances using ICanBoogie/CLDR which uses Unicode's Common Locale Data Repository to format DateTime instances.
<?php
use ICanBoogie\CLDR\Repository;
use ICanBoogie\DateTime;
// …
$repository = new Repository($provider);
DateTime::$localizer = function(DateTime $instance, $locale) use ($repository) {
return $repository->locales[$locale]->localize($instance);
};
$date = DateTime::from('2015-05-05 23:21:05', 'UTC');
echo $date->localize('fr')->format('long'); // mardi 5 mai 2015 23:13:05 UTC
echo $date->localize('fr')->as_medium; // 5 mai 2015 23:13:05
The package requires PHP 5.4 or later.
Starting with v1.1.0 the package implements the JsonSerializable interface and thus requires PHP 5.4+. If you only have access to PHP 5.3, use the branch 1.0.x instead.
The recommended way to install this package is through Composer:
$ composer require icanboogie/datetime
The package icanboogie/common is suggested to
provide finer exceptions, such as [PropertyNotDefined][] and [PropertyNotWritable][].
If the package is not included, RunTimeException
instances are thrown instead.
The package is available on GitHub, its repository can be cloned with the following command line:
$ git clone https://github.com/ICanBoogie/DateTime.git
The package is documented as part of the ICanBoogie framework
documentation. The documentation for the package and its
dependencies can be generated with the make doc
command. The documentation is generated in
the build/docs
directory using ApiGen. The package directory can later by
cleaned with the make clean
command.
The following classes are documented:
- DateTime
- [TimeZone][]
- [TimeZoneLocation][]
The test suite is ran with the make test
command. Composer is
automatically installed as well as all the dependencies required to run the suite. The package
directory can later be cleaned with the make clean
command.
The package is continuously tested by Travis CI.
icanboogie/datetime is licensed under the New BSD License - See the LICENSE file for details.
[TimeZone]: http://api.icanboogie.org/datetime/latest/class-ICanBoogie.TimeZone.html) [TimeZoneLocation]: http://api.icanboogie.org/datetime/latest/class-ICanBoogie.TimeZoneLocation.html [PropertyNotDefined]: http://api.icanboogie.org/common/1.2/class-ICanBoogie.PropertyNotDefined.html [PropertyNotWritable]: http://api.icanboogie.org/common/1.2/class-ICanBoogie.PropertyNotWritable.html