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DateTime vs numeric timezone

By indeyets,on July 11th,2007

Is it possible to create DateTime object if I have some date string,and a numeric timezone value?

Something like:
$timestamp = '2007-07-07 07:07:07'; $timezone = '+0300';

$obj = new DateTime($timestamp,new DateTimeZone(????));

I need this,to add proper support for YAML-timestamps in my syck extension.

In YAML,timestamps have several representations:

As you can see,in each case timezone is represented by numeric,while PHP expects me to specify timezone as a toponymâ€¦

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http://derickrethans.nl Derick

Just use:
$dt = new DateTime( “2001-12-15T02:59:43.1Z”);
$dt = new DateTime( “2001-12-14 21:59:43.10 -5″);
$dt = new DateTime( “2001-12-14 21:59:43.10 +0300″);
The first argument is *not* a timestamp.
http://indeyets.pp.ru/ indeyets

thanks,Derickâ€¦ I was misleaded by comment at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-create.php#74599
actually there still is a problemâ€¦ but it is not related to my extension.
Try this,it should be self-descriptive
< ?php
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
$date = "2001-12-14T21:59:43-0500";
$dt = new DateTime($date);
var_dump($dt->getTimezone()->getName());
epaulin

I use this as a workaound,kind of hacky:
{{{
$offset = ‘-5′;
$date = gmdate(“Y-m-d H:i:s”,time());
$offset = (int) $offset;
// according to the wrong RFC,Etc/GMT-N means GMT+N
if ($offset >0){
$offset = ‘-’. abs($offset);
} else{
$offset = ‘+’. abs($offset);
}
$timeZoneId = ‘Etc/GMT’. $offset;
$dateTime = new DateTime($date,new DateTimeZone(‘UTC’));
$dateTime->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone($timeZoneId));
}}}
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