Re: DateTime::modify('now') is ignored, why?

Hi Chris, You didn't understand. I have a \DateTime object, and I would like to change the date and time to the current date and time = now. Imagine you have a \DateTime object that was serialized and you would like to “refresh” it, you need to $d->modify('now'). This is strictly equivalent to $d->setTimestamp(time()) but in a more elegant way. But the documentation says that “now” is ignored, and I would like to know why because it is useful. Thanks. On 26/11/12 12:23, Chris van Dam wrote:

Hi Ivan, $d = new \DateTime('+1 hour', new \DateTimeZone('Europe/Amsterdam')); Is exactly the same as: // Current timestamp with timezone $d = new \DateTime(null, new \DateTimeZone('Europe/Amsterdam')); // Add 1 hour to the timestamp with timezone $d->modify('+1 hour'); This is what you would like to do right? As modifying the timestamp with another timestamp would make no sense to me. Kind regards, Chris van Dam Op 26-11-12 12:06 schreef Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net>:

Hi internals, I would to modify a \DateTime object to the current time, thus I wrote this: $d = new \DateTime('+1 hour'); $d->modify('now'); It did not work. Why? Because the documentation (http://php.net/datetime.formats.relative) says: ³Now - this is simply ignored². Really? But the behavior is pretty straightforward isn't? ³modify to now² means ³set to the current date and time and let the timezone unchanged². Thoughts? Best regards. -- Ivan Enderlin Developer of Hoa http://hoa.42/ or http://hoa-project.net/ PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis) http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/ Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C http://w3.org/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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-- Ivan Enderlin Developer of Hoa http://hoa.42/ or http://hoa-project.net/ PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis) http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/ Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C http://w3.org/