ID: 49609
User updated by: jo at feuersee dot de
Reported By: jo at feuersee dot de
Status: Open
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: not OS related
PHP Version: 5.3.0
New Comment:
I might add the request for a method parse($string) which works like
the localtime() method but returns a DateTime object (or at least a
DateTime (ISO 8601) parseable string. Like the DateFormat of ICU does.
The struct returned by localtime() is really impractical to handle (eg.
tm_mon is numbered 0-11, tm_year is defined as "years since 1900").
Previous Comments:
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[2009-09-20 14:39:43] jo at feuersee dot de
Description:
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The usage of the ICU based IntlDateFormatter class would be much more
convenient if it would support DateTime objects, especially the format()
method.
The workaround is to parse the DateTime value to a timestamp and cast
it to int (or use getTimestamp() with PHP 5.3.0+).
The alternative localtime() structured param is a bit odd IMHO, I
really can't remember having seen any usage of this function in the last
10 years. It seems it has been chosen to circumvent the limited range of
timestamps?
In fact, the range of localtime() is limited, though not as much as
mktime():
with Linux on x686 it's approx. from UTC 1902-01-01 to 2038-01-19
The DateTime class does not have this limited range, a nice OO design,
works great with ISO 8601 formatted dates and times . why not use it in
IntlDateFormatter?
Reproduce code:
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1) php -r '$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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