Re: Remove warning when parsing datetime with + symbol?

On 28.11.2022 at 16:50, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2022, mickmackusa wrote: > >> Can anyone explain to me why it is desirable/beneficial for the DateTime >> class to store a warning that trailing characters were ignored while >> parsing a date/time string with the + symbol in createFromFormat()? > > I have no idea why I decided that was a good idea back all these years, > and I'm perfectly happy to remove that restriction from PHP 8.3 > forwards — it's too late to do that in PHP 8.2 now, as it's being > released next week. That would appear to consitute a BC break. From the docs: | If this format specifier is present, trailing data in the string will | not cause an error, but a warning instead This can be used to parse the date (without the +, parsing may fail), but still be able to return a message about ignored characters to the user.. -- Christoph M. Becker