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Informations about the package doctrine-fixed-timezone

Fixed timezone types for Doctrine

The problem

If your application handles dates with different timezones, you have two options:

1) save the time zone of each date to the database

If you need to know the timezone later on, this is the only option.

Unfortunately, this makes queries on dates practically impossible: SELECT * FROM x WHERE x.date > CURRENT_TIMESTAMP() will lead to unexpected results. CURRENT_TIMESTAMP will use the current time of the database server, and your dates are interpreted in the wrong timezone.

2) Convert all dates saved in the database to one timezone

If you convert all dates to the timezone of the database server, your queries will work as expected.

Unfortunately, Doctrine does not come with an option to do this conversion.

Solution provided by this library

This library provides replacements for the DBAL types datetime, and datetime_immutable, which will automatically convert dates into the database timezone.

When reading a datetime or datetime_immutable, the timezone will not be converted to the PHP timezone. The dates will refer to the correct point in time, but have the database timezone.

Regarding standalone date and time

A date without a time, or a time without a date both do not refer to an absolute point in time. Since PHP does not have types to represent stand-alone times or dates, developers use DateTime objects to represent those too, but their timezone should be ignored.

Therefore, it should be fine to use the standard date and time doctrine types.

How to use

Symfony:

To set the database timezone, define a constant define('DATABASE_TIMEZONE', 'Europe/Berline'); or set an environment variable DATABASE_TIMEZONE.

Otherwise, the PHP timezone is used.

Background

https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.6/cookbook/working-with-datetime.html#handling-different-timezones-with-the-datetime-type

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doctrine/dbal Version ^2.7
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