Doc #54402 [NEW]: Format string not documented correctly for %I minutes and $S seconds

From: Operating system: Ubuntu PHP version: 5.3SVN-2011-03-27 (snap) Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Format string not documented correctly for %I minutes and $S seconds Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/datetime.format#Parameters --- Note about the time diff format string: As far as I can tell, the datetime diff format string I ended up using is not documented anywere. The PHP manual says that the format string for the time diff is a "format accepted by date()". That would look like 'Y-m-d H:i:s', but that did not work. The other documented format I could find is the one accepted by strftime. That would look like '%Y-%M-%D %H:%i:%s', but that did not give leading zeroes for minutes and seconds. $my_birth_tz=new DateTimeZone('America/Phoenix'); $my_birth=new DateTime('1956-09-19 08:38:00',$my_birth_tz); $my_marriage_tz=new DateTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles'); $my_marriage=new DateTime('1981-12-14 11:38:00', $my_marriage_tz); $my_marriage_age=$my_marriage->diff($my_birth); echo $my_marriage_age->;format('%Y-%M-%D %H:%I:%S'); // Result: 25-02-25 04:00:00 Test script: --------------- $my_birth_tz=new DateTimeZone('America/Phoenix'); $my_birth=new DateTime('1956-09-19 08:38:00',$my_birth_tz); $my_marriage_tz=new DateTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles'); $my_marriage=new DateTime('1981-12-14 11:38:00', $my_marriage_tz); $my_marriage_age=$my_marriage->diff($my_birth); echo $my_marriage_age->;format('%Y-%M-%D %H:%I:%S'); // Result: 25-02-25 04:00:00 // Note the non-documented format() string. echo $my_marriage_age->;format('%Y-%M-%D %H:%i:%s'); // Result: 25-02-25 04:0:0 // Expected 25-02-25 04:00:00 from the documented format string. Expected result: ---------------- // Expected 25-02-25 04:00:00 from the documented format string. I wanted leading zeros. Actual result: -------------- // Result: 25-02-25 04:0:0 No leading zeros. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54402&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54402&r=mysqlcfg