Re: DateTime improvement

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Lester Caine wrote: > > > I'm not really against that, but we do need to use the Date namespace - > > > >>so DateTimeImmutable. It might be trickier to do than it sounds > > > >>though... > > > > > > I've started hacking on this - with some luck I'm done before PHP 5.5 > > > beta1. > > Am I missing something here? > Isn't this just making the object content read only? Sortof. But as that is how things work, making an immutable variant isn't that easy. > Haven't we been having a separate discussion on that? > > On the whole I'm only using DateTime objects when I need to display the > content in a different timezone, so the timezone needs to be changeable, but > the base date is read only. Alternatively I'm building a calendar so need 'all > the days for month x' as an array, and then use those dates to generate the > database query. If it's a 'local' calendar then there will be a time offset > incorporated as well. Al the methods will *still* return the modified DateTime object - it's just that the one that you *call* f.e. ->modify() on won't change anymore. cheers, Derick