Re: Can i use DateTime Object with an timestamp as referenceinstead of an formated string.

Jochem Maas wrote:

Mathijs wrote:

Hello there, I Use timestamps for logging etc..

so you do something like this no?: $stamp = mktime(); so if you want to use DateTime why not do this?: $stamp = new DateTime; alternatively if you are stuck with the original integer timestamp, then you can get round the issue like so: $stamp = mktime(); $date = getdate($stamp); $obj = new DateTime; $obj->setDate($date['year'], $date['mon'], $date['mday']); $obj->setTime($date['hours'], $date['minutes'], $date['seconds']); $obj->setTimezone('er?'); or something like that. seems rather stupid that DateTime doesn't accept a timestamp, but there is probably a good reason ... as Richard Lynch pointed out date/time stuff seems easy but is actually very very hard (and something computers will probably never get 'right') anyway, everything you need is right here if care to read it: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.datetime.php

But i need this timestamp to let is show the right time in different timezones. Now i wanted to use DateTime object, but it seems it needs a string as reference, so i can't use a timestamp to re-generate that time. How can i fix this? Thx in advance.

Thx for that idea. I Now created an class/object which extends from DateTime. Hope this can help other ppl with the same prob as well. Thx. Mathijs. class DateTimeHandler extends DateTime { public final function __construct($time=null, DateTimeZone $object=null) { if (is_numeric($time)) { parent::__construct(); $datetime = getdate($time); parent::setDate($datetime['year'], $datetime['mon'], $datetime['mday']); parent::setTime($datetime['hours'], $datetime['minutes'], $datetime['seconds']); parent::setTimezone($object); return $this; } else { if ($object) { return parent::__construct($time, $object); } else { return parent::__construct(); } } } }