Object oriented style
Procedural style
Returns new DateTime object.
A date/time string. Valid formats are explained in Date and Time Formats.
Enter NULL
here to obtain the current time when using the $timezone
parameter.
A DateTimeZone object representing the timezone of $time
.
If $timezone
is omitted, the current timezone will be used.
Note:
The
$timezone
parameter and the current timezone are ignored when the$time
parameter either is a UNIX timestamp (e.g. @946684800) or specifies a timezone (e.g. 2010-01-28T15:00:00+02:00).
Returns a new DateTime instance. Procedural style returns FALSE
on failure.
Emits Exception in case of an error.
If time
contains an invalid date/time format, then an exception is now thrown. Previously an error was emitted.
Object oriented style
<?php try { $date = new DateTime('2000-01-01'); } catch (Exception $e) { echo $e->getMessage(); exit(1); } echo $date->format('Y-m-d'); ?>
Procedural style
<?php $date = date_create('2000-01-01'); if (!$date) { $e = date_get_last_errors(); foreach ($e['errors'] as $error) { echo "$error\n"; } exit(1); } echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d'); ?>
The above examples will output:
2000-01-01
<?php // Specified date/time in your computer's time zone. $date = new DateTime('2000-01-01'); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n"; // Specified date/time in the specified time zone. $date = new DateTime('2000-01-01', new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Nauru')); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n"; // Current date/time in your computer's time zone. $date = new DateTime(); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n"; // Current date/time in the specified time zone. $date = new DateTime(null, new DateTimeZone('Pacific/Nauru')); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n"; // Using a UNIX timestamp. Notice the result is in the UTC time zone. $date = new DateTime('@946684800'); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n"; // Non-existent values roll over. $date = new DateTime('2000-02-30'); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:sP') . "\n"; ?>
The above example will output something similar to:
2000-01-01 00:00:00-05:00 2000-01-01 00:00:00+12:00 2010-04-24 10:24:16-04:00 2010-04-25 02:24:16+12:00 2000-01-01 00:00:00+00:00 2000-03-01 00:00:00-05:00
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