The DateInterval class
The DateInterval class
Introduction
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Represents a date interval.
A date interval stores either a fixed amount of time (in years, months, days, hours etc) or a relative time string in the format that DateTime's constructor supports.
More specifically, the information in an object of the DateInterval class is an instruction to get from one date/time to another date/time. This process is not always reversible.
A common way to create a DateInterval object is by calculating the difference between two date/time objects through DateTimeInterface::diff().
Class synopsis
class DateInterval {
public int $y
;
public int $m
;
public int $d
;
public int $h
;
public int $i
;
public int $s
;
public float $f
;
public int $invert
;
public mixed $days
;
/* Methods */
public __construct(string $duration
)
public static createFromDateString(string $datetime): DateInterval|false
public format(string $format): string
}
Properties
y
- Number of years.
m
- Number of months.
d
- Number of days.
h
- Number of hours.
i
- Number of minutes.
s
- Number of seconds.
f
- Number of microseconds, as a fraction of a second.
invert
- Is
1
if the interval represents a negative time period and0
otherwise. See DateInterval::format(). days
- If the DateInterval object was created by DateTime::diff(), then this is the total number of days between the start and end dates. Otherwise,
days
will be false.
Changelog
Version | Description |
---|---|
7.1.0 | The f property was added.
|
Table of Contents
- DateInterval::__construct — Creates a new DateInterval object
- DateInterval::createFromDateString — Sets up a DateInterval from the relative parts of the string
- DateInterval::format — Formats the interval
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/* Properties */