Class Date

Returns either a relative or a formatted absolute date depending on the difference between the current date and this object.

Options:

• from => another Date object representing the "now" date
• format => a fall back format if the relative time is longer than the duration specified by end
• accuracy => Specifies how accurate the date should be described (array)
  • year => The format if years > 0 (default "day")
  • month => The format if months > 0 (default "day")
  • week => The format if weeks > 0 (default "day")
  • day => The format if weeks > 0 (default "day")
• end => The end of relative date telling
• relativeString => The printf compatible string when outputting relative date
• absoluteString => The printf compatible string when outputting absolute date
• timezone => The user timezone the timestamp should be formatted in.

Relative dates look something like this:

• 3 weeks, 4 days ago
• 1 day ago

Default date formatting is d/M/YY e.g: on 18/2/09. Formatting is done internally using i18nFormat, see the method for the valid formatting strings.

The returned string includes 'ago' or 'on' and assumes you'll properly add a word like 'Posted ' before the function output.

NOTE: If the difference is one week or more, the lowest level of accuracy is day.

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Returns the data that should be displayed when debugging this object

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Returns a translated and localized date string. Implements what IntlDateFormatter::formatObject() is in PHP 5.5+

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Get the difference formatter instance or overwrite the current one.

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Gets the default locale.

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Returns a formatted string for this time object using the preferred format and language for the specified locale.

It is possible to specify the desired format for the string to be displayed. You can either pass IntlDateFormatter constants as the first argument of this function, or pass a full ICU date formatting string as specified in the following resource: http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/classSimpleDateFormat.html#details.

Additional to IntlDateFormatter constants and date formatting string you can use Time::UNIX_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT to get a unix timestamp

Examples

$time = new Time('2014-04-20 22:10');
$time->i18nFormat(); // outputs '4/20/14, 10:10 PM' for the en-US locale
$time->i18nFormat(\IntlDateFormatter::FULL); // Use the full date and time format
$time->i18nFormat([\IntlDateFormatter::FULL, \IntlDateFormatter::SHORT]); // Use full date but short time format
$time->i18nFormat('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'); // outputs '2014-04-20 22:10'
$time->i18nFormat(Time::UNIX_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT); // outputs '1398031800'

If you wish to control the default format to be used for this method, you can alter the value of the static Time::$defaultLocale variable and set it to one of the possible formats accepted by this function.

You can read about the available IntlDateFormatter constants at https://secure.php.net/manual/en/class.intldateformatter.php

If you need to display the date in a different timezone than the one being used for this Time object without altering its internal state, you can pass a timezone string or object as the second parameter.

Finally, should you need to use a different locale for displaying this time object, pass a locale string as the third parameter to this function.

Examples

$time = new Time('2014-04-20 22:10');
$time->i18nFormat(null, null, 'de-DE');
$time->i18nFormat(\IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'Europe/Berlin', 'de-DE');

You can control the default locale to be used by setting the static variable Time::$defaultLocale to a valid locale string. If empty, the default will be taken from the intl.default_locale ini config.

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Returns a string that should be serialized when converting this object to json

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Returns a nicely formatted date string for this object.

The format to be used is stored in the static property Time::niceFormat.

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Returns a new Time object after parsing the provided $date string based on the passed or configured date time format. This method is locale dependent, Any string that is passed to this function will be interpreted as a locale dependent string.

When no $format is provided, the wordFormat format will be used.

If it was impossible to parse the provided time, null will be returned.

Example:

$time = Time::parseDate('10/13/2013');
 $time = Time::parseDate('13 Oct, 2013', 'dd MMM, y');
 $time = Time::parseDate('13 Oct, 2013', IntlDateFormatter::SHORT);

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Returns a new Time object after parsing the provided time string based on the passed or configured date time format. This method is locale dependent, Any string that is passed to this function will be interpreted as a locale dependent string.

When no $format is provided, the toString format will be used.

If it was impossible to parse the provided time, null will be returned.

Example:

$time = Time::parseDateTime('10/13/2013 12:54am');
 $time = Time::parseDateTime('13 Oct, 2013 13:54', 'dd MMM, y H:mm');
 $time = Time::parseDateTime('10/10/2015', [IntlDateFormatter::SHORT, -1]);

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Returns a new Time object after parsing the provided $time string based on the passed or configured date time format. This method is locale dependent, Any string that is passed to this function will be interpreted as a locale dependent string.

When no $format is provided, the IntlDateFormatter::SHORT format will be used.

If it was impossible to parse the provided time, null will be returned.

Example:

$time = Time::parseTime('11:23pm');

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Resets the format used to the default when converting an instance of this type to a string

Sets the default locale.

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Sets the default format used when converting this object to json

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Sets the default format used when type converting instances of this type to string

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