Bug #80141 [Opn->Dup]: Datetime::createFromFormat('c') fails with c formatted string

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80141&edit=1 ID: 80141 Updated by: salathe@php.net Reported by: kylekatarnls at gmail dot com Summary: Datetime::createFromFormat('c') fails with c formatted string -Status: Open +Status: Duplicate Type: Bug Package: Date/time related PHP Version: 7.4.10 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Duplicate of #72592. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-09-23 08:26:35] cmb@php.net According to the docs, ::createFromFormat() does not support the 'c' format. Use DateTimeInterface::ATOM instead: <https://3v4l.org/jf52r>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-09-23 08:05:50] kylekatarnls at gmail dot com Description: ------------ This bug relates to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72592 which has been closed as duplicated while it's different from the bug it's supposed to duplicate (64414). Datetime::createFromFormat() return false and generates 2 errors in getLastErrors() when giving the format 'c' and a string that has actually be output with format('c'). Side note: it works fine when passing the format 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sP' to createFromFormat() Test script: --------------- var_dump(DateTime::createFromFormat('c', (new DateTime('2020-02-02'))->format('c'))); echo implode("\n", DateTime::getLastErrors()['errors']); Expected result: ---------------- object(DateTime)#3 (3) { ["date"]=> string(26) "2020-02-02 00:00:00.000000" ["timezone_type"]=> int(1) ["timezone"]=> string(6) "+00:00" } Actual result: -------------- false The format separator does not match Trailing data ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80141&edit=1