Re: cvs: phpdoc /en/reference/datetime/functions date-add.xml date-sub.xml

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 18:15, Richard Quadling <rquadling@php.net> wrote: > rquadling Tue Jul 29 16:15:27 2008 UTC > > Added files: > /phpdoc/en/reference/datetime/functions date-add.xml date-sub.xml > Log: > date-add and date-sub (with thanks to Andy J Belamy) > > > > http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/phpdoc/en/reference/datetime/functions/date-add.xml?view=markup&rev=1.1 > Index: phpdoc/en/reference/datetime/functions/date-add.xml > +++ phpdoc/en/reference/datetime/functions/date-add.xml [..] > <para> > The amount to be added. For the date use "P3D", "P3M", > "P3Y" or a > combination of the three e.g. "P2M5D" (Y = Years, M = Months, D = Days.) > MUST BE YEAR MONTH DAY FORMAT "P5Y", "P5M2D", "P5Y4D". For > the time use > "T3H", "T3M", "T3S" or or a combination of the three e.g. > "T5H20M" (H = > Hours, M = Minutes, S = Seconds). For dateTime us "P5D2M4YT5H20M". The > digit before the letter (NOT P or T) can be any amount. What does this mean, and why is it documented here? I thought the second parameter was an instance of DateInterval? -Hannes