Req #49779 [Opn->Csd]: Add support for microtime to DateTime object construction

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49779&edit=1 ID: 49779 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported by: urkle at outoforder dot cc Summary: Add support for microtime to DateTime object construction -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Date/time related Operating System: CentOS 5 PHP Version: 5.3.0 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: derick Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The fix for this bug has been committed. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. For Windows: http://windows.php.net/snapshots/ Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. From PHP 7.1.0 RC4, you can do: new DateTime(); new DateTime::createFromFormat( "U.u", microtime( TRUE ) ); DateTime::setTime() now also accepts an extra 4th argument to set microseconds. I know it's not *exactly* what you've asked for, but I consider this to be "good enough" for now. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-05 19:03:09] urkle at outoforder dot cc 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 this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49779&edit=1