#49779 [NEW]: Add support for microtime to DateTime object construction

From: urkle at outoforder dot cc Operating system: CentOS 5 PHP version: 5.3.0 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Add support for microtime to DateTime object construction Description: ------------ Currently the DateTime object construction accepts a strtotime type input only for setting the date on the object. This means that when trying to get the current time WITH microseconds you have to do something like this.. <?php $t = microtime(true); $micro = sprintf("%06d",($t - floor($t)) * 1000000); $d = new DateTime( date('Y-m-d H:i:s.'.$micro,$t) ); ?> which is highly inefficient as we are converting a float into a string and then converting it from a string into the internal format for the DateTime object. It would be really nice to have a constructor for the DateTime object that would accept a float argument (defaulting to NOW w/ microseconds) Possible suggestions would be factory method $d = DateTime::TimeWithMicroseconds(); make the constructor accept a float $d = new DateTime(microtime(true)); modify the setTimestamp method in PHP 5.3 to accept a float. $d = new DateTime(); $d->setTimestamp(microtime(true)); -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49779&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49779&r=mysqlcfg