From: jo at feuersee dot de
Operating system: not OS related
PHP version: 5.3.0
PHP Bug Type: I18N and L10N related
Bug description: Feature request: native DateTime support in IntlDateFormatter
Description:
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The usage of the ICU based IntlDateFormatter class would be much more
convenient if it would support DateTime objects, especially the format()
method.
The workaround is to parse the DateTime value to a timestamp and cast it
to int (or use getTimestamp() with PHP 5.3.0+).
The alternative localtime() structured param is a bit odd IMHO, I really
can't remember having seen any usage of this function in the last 10 years.
It seems it has been chosen to circumvent the limited range of timestamps?
In fact, the range of localtime() is limited, though not as much as
mktime():
with Linux on x686 it's approx. from UTC 1902-01-01 to 2038-01-19
The DateTime class does not have this limited range, a nice OO design,
works great with ISO 8601 formatted dates and times . why not use it in
IntlDateFormatter?
Reproduce code:
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1) php -r '$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter("de_DE"
,IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM, IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM, "UTC");
$dt = new DateTime("1781-12-13");
printf("%s\n", $fmt->format($dt));'
2) php -r '$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter("de_DE"
,IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM, IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM, "UTC");
$dt = new DateTime("1781-12-13");
printf("%s\n", $fmt->format($dt->format("U")));'
3) php -r '$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter("de_DE"
,IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM, IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM, "UTC");
$dt = new DateTime("1781-12-13");
printf("%s\n", $fmt->format((int) $dt->format("U")));'
Expected result:
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1) 12.12.1781 23:00:00
2) 12.12.1781 23:00:00
3) 12.12.1781 23:00:00
Actual result:
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1)
2)
3) 12.12.1781 23:00:00
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