Bug #70036 [NEW]: DateTime::createFromFormat/date_create_from_format return value not "formatted"

From: chealer at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Bug Bug description:DateTime::createFromFormat/date_create_from_format return value not "formatted" Description: ------------ date_create_from_format() returns a DateTime object. That object is not "formatted" in any way, yet the functions's description reads: Returns new DateTime object formatted according to the specified format Clearly, what the author meant was: Returns a new DateTime object representing the date and time specified by the specified string, which was formatted in the specified format --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/datetime.createfromformat --- -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70036&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70036&r=mysqlcfg