Comments on: DateTime vs numeric timezone

By: Alexey Zakhlestin’s blog » Syck for PHP, 0.9.1 (aka “beta2″)

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:46:06 +0000

[...] added support for timestamps in syck_load (thanks to Derick for a hint) [...]

By: epaulin

epaulin — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:25:59 +0000

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));

}}}

By: indeyets

indeyets — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:36:10 +0000

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());

By: Derick

Derick — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:19:00 +0000

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.