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

Hi Sebastien, On 26/11/12 12:25, Sebastian Krebs wrote:

2012/11/26 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 <http://php.net/datetime.formats.relative>) says: “Now - this is simply ignored”. Really? But the behavior is pretty straightforward isn't? “modify to now” means “set to the current date and time and let the timezone unchanged”.

It's not like "modify to something", but "modify _with_ something". With your point of view "modifiy('+7 days')" will _always_ point to next week, but it should (and it's intuitive right), that it will point to 7 days after the previous date. So what should "modify with now" mean? I understand the different, but then, why “now” is declared in the documentation :-) ?

Other way round: You are looking for the "set*()"-methods :) Because you want to _set_ a date, not modify one. Exactly, setTimestamp(time()) resolved by problem.

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/