From: david at palepurple dot co dot uk
Operating system: Linux
PHP version: 5.2.4
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: date parsing in DateTime / date_parse - accept optioanl format
Description:
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The default set of date/times accepted by strtotime() is limited (e.g. in
not understanding English/UK date formats (dd/mm/yyyy).
It would be nice if the new DateTime object accepted a date() compatible
format string to a 'date_parse' like method.
(I like the DateTime object, as it seems to handle a larger range of dates
than strtotime() for me).
Reproduce code:
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<?php
$dt = new DateTime();
$dt->parse('30/12/1601', 'd/m/Y');
echo $dt->format('Y/m/d');
?>
(Presumably successive parse calls would overwrite the state from a
previous one)
Expected result:
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1601/12/30.
If both formats are the same, then the output should match the input.
Actual result:
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n/a.
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