note 105460 modified in intldateformatter.create by danbrown

It should be noted that the locale string passed into IntlDateFormatter's constructor supports UCA keywords. So you can, for example, do things like this to output the year as a Japanese era year: <?php $now = new DateTime(); //DateTime is a core PHP class as of version 5.2.0 $formatter = new IntlDateFormatter('ja_JP', IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'Asia/Tokyo', IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN); echo 'It is now: "' . $formatter->format($now) . '" in Tokyo' . "\n"; //above gives [It is now: "2011年8月19日金曜日 23時32分27秒JST" in Tokyo] $formatter = new IntlDateFormatter('ja_JP@calendar=japanese', IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'Asia/Tokyo', IntlDateFormatter::TRADITIONAL); echo 'It is now: "' . $formatter->format($now) . '" in Tokyo' . "\n"; //above gives [It is now: "平成23年8月19日金曜日 23時32分27秒JST" in Tokyo] ?> --was-- It should be noted that the locale string passed into IntlDateFormatter's constructor supports UCA keywords. So you can, for example, do things like this to output the year as a Japanese era year: $now = new DateTime(); //DateTime is a core PHP class as of version 5.2.0 $formatter = new IntlDateFormatter('ja_JP', IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'Asia/Tokyo', IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN); echo 'It is now: "' . $formatter->format($now) . '" in Tokyo' . "\n"; //above gives [It is now: "2011年8月19日金曜日 23時32分27秒JST" in Tokyo] $formatter = new IntlDateFormatter('ja_JP@calendar=japanese', IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'Asia/Tokyo', IntlDateFormatter::TRADITIONAL); echo 'It is now: "' . $formatter->format($now) . '" in Tokyo' . "\n"; //above gives [It is now: "平成23年8月19日金曜日 23時32分27秒JST" in Tokyo] http://php.net/manual/en/intldateformatter.create.php