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The DateTime class

INTRODUCTION

	Representation of date and time.

CLASS SYNOPSIS

       DateTime

       DateTimeDateTimeInterface

       Constants

       o const string$DateTime::ATOM"Y-m-dTH:i:sP"

       o const string$DateTime::COOKIE"l, d-M-Y H:i:s T"

       o const string$DateTime::ISO8601"Y-m-dTH:i:sO"

       o const string$DateTime::RFC822"D, d M y H:i:s O"

       o const string$DateTime::RFC850"l, d-M-y H:i:s T"

       o const string$DateTime::RFC1036"D, d M y H:i:s O"

       o const string$DateTime::RFC1123"D, d M Y H:i:s O"

       o const string$DateTime::RFC2822"D, d M Y H:i:s O"

       o const string$DateTime::RFC3339"Y-m-dTH:i:sP"

       o const string$DateTime::RSS"D, d M Y H:i:s O"

       o const string$DateTime::W3C"Y-m-dTH:i:sP"

       Methods

       o public DateTime::__construct NULL ([string  $time = "now"], [DateTimeZone  $timezone])

       o public DateTime DateTime::add (DateInterval  $interval)

       o publicstatic DateTime DateTime::createFromFormat (string  $format, string  $time, [DateTimeZone  $timezone])

       o publicstatic array DateTime::getLastErrors (void  )

       o public DateTime DateTime::modify (string  $modify)

       o publicstatic DateTime DateTime::__set_state (array  $array)

       o public DateTime DateTime::setDate (int  $year, int  $month, int  $day)

       o public DateTime DateTime::setISODate (int  $year, int	$week, [int  $day = 1])

       o public DateTime DateTime::setTime (int  $hour, int  $minute, [int  $second])

       o public DateTime DateTime::setTimestamp (int  $unixtimestamp)

       o public DateTime DateTime::setTimezone (DateTimeZone  $timezone)

       o public DateTime DateTime::sub (DateInterval  $interval)

       o public DateInterval DateTime::diff (DateTimeInterface	$datetime2, [bool  $absolute = false])

       o public string DateTime::format (string  $format)

       o public int DateTime::getOffset (void  )

       o public int DateTime::getTimestamp (void  )

       o public DateTimeZone DateTime::getTimezone (void  )

       o public DateTime::__wakeup (void  )

PREDEFINED CONSTANTS

	      o DateTime::ATOM - DATE_ATOM - Atom (example: 2005-08-15T15:52:01+00:00)

	      o DateTime::COOKIE - DATE_COOKIE - HTTP Cookies (example: Monday, 15-Aug-2005 15:52:01 UTC)

	      o DateTime::ISO8601 - DATE_ISO8601 - ISO-8601 (example: 2005-08-15T15:52:01+0000)

	      o DateTime::RFC822 - DATE_RFC822 - RFC 822 (example: Mon, 15 Aug 05 15:52:01 +0000)

	      o DateTime::RFC850 - DATE_RFC850 - RFC 850 (example: Monday, 15-Aug-05 15:52:01 UTC)

	      o DateTime::RFC1036 - DATE_RFC1036 - RFC 1036 (example: Mon, 15 Aug 05 15:52:01 +0000)

	      o DateTime::RFC1123 - DATE_RFC1123 - RFC 1123 (example: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:52:01 +0000)

	      o DateTime::RFC2822 - DATE_RFC2822 - RFC 2822 (example: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:52:01 +0000)

	      o DateTime::RFC3339 - DATE_RFC3339 - Same as DATE_ATOM (since PHP 5.1.3)

	      o DateTime::RSS - DATE_RSS - RSS (example: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:52:01 +0000)

	      o DateTime::W3C - DATE_W3C - World Wide Web Consortium (example: 2005-08-15T15:52:01+00:00)

CHANGELOG

       +--------+---------------------------------------------------+
       |Version |						    |
       |	|						    |
       |	|		     Description		    |
       |	|						    |
       +--------+---------------------------------------------------+
       | 5.5.0	|						    |
       |	|						    |
       |	|    The class now implements DateTimeInterface.    |
       |	|						    |
       |5.4.24	|						    |
       |	|						    |
       |	|  The	COOKIE	constant was changed to reflect RFC |
       |	| 1036 using a four digit year rather  than  a	two |
       |	| digit year (RFC 850) as prior versions.	    |
       |	|						    |
       | 5.2.2	|						    |
       |	|						    |
       |	|  DateTime  object  comparison with the comparison |
       |	| operators changed to	work  as  expected.  Previ- |
       |	| ously, all DateTime objects were considered equal |
       |	| (using ==).					    |
       |	|						    |
       +--------+---------------------------------------------------+
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