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Package datetimeinterval
Short Description DateTimeInterval is wrapper of DateInterval that provides useful methods for calculating delays.
License MIT
Homepage https://github.com/GlucNAc/DateTimeInterval
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GlucNAc/DateTimeInterval
When you want to compute a delay between two DateTimes, it can be quickly tricky to get the result you are expecting for, and sometimes you need to perform some calculations, which can lead to incorrect result.
DateTimeInterval is wrapper of DateInterval that provides useful methods for calculating delays. Thanks to this library, there is no need to compute results returned from DateInterval anymore. Moreover, all of its methods are fully tested, and are explicitly named and commented.
In that way, you don't have to copy/paste the logic you implemented on another project, just install this library and enjoy.
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Usage
And so on :
Result can be signed or unsigned, depending on the third parameter of the constructor ($returnAbsoluteValue
, default is true).
Result can be formatted as a string :
Nostalgic about DateInterval ? No problem, you can get it back :
What is the purpose ?
To understand the usefulness of this library, let's try to compute some delays.
Get delays using date_diff()
Actually: ->y
, ->m
, ->d
, ->h
, ->i
, ->s
, ->f
: all are returning a relative count, which means that for any absolute result,
you must perform some calculations using ->days
, which is the only result to be absolute. Even though these calculations
are simple, rewriting them on each of your project is boring and can lead to inattention mistakes.
That's why this library has been made for: to abstract the calculations and to get a more object-oriented coding.
Copyright and License
The GlucNAc/DateTimeInterval library is copyright © GlucNAc and licensed for use under the MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.