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A Tale about Time - LaravelLive India 2018

A Tale about Time - LaravelLive India 2018

Timezones, DST, human readable diffs, standardised formats, intervals, getting the last Tuesday of next month… Dealing with timestamps seems easy, but there’s a lot to it. It’s very easy to do it wrong. Learn how to do this properly and you’ll never be chasing weird time related bugs anymore!

Hannes Van De Vreken

March 17, 2018
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  1. A Tale about Time
    @hannesvdvreken
    @laravellivein

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  2. Hi, my name is Hannes.

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  3. !

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  6. A Tale about Time

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  7. 2018-03-17T10:15:00+05:30

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  11. EST = UTC-05:00

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  12. UTC+05:45

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  13. UTC+05:30

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  14. Helsinki
    Sunrise: 9:24 - 3:54
    Sunset: 15:13 - 22:50
    Quito
    Sunrise: 6:08 - 6:12
    Sunset: 18:16 - 18:19

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  16. EST/EDT - March 12
    CET/CEST - March 24

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  17. '

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  18. (

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  19. )

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  20. Storing vs Expressing time

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  21. 6:00PM vs 18:00

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  22. 1521261900

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  23. 1521261900
    >1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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  24. 1521261900
    >1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
    <2038-01-19T03:14:07+00:00

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  25. RFC3339:
    2018-03-17T10:15:00+05:30

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  26. RFC3339 extended:
    2018-03-17T10:15:00.000+05:30

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  27. Sortable:
    2018-03-17T05:45:00.000+00:00

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  28. Calendars

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  29. Weeks - 7 days

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  30. Months
    Lunar vs Tropical

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  31. Years
    Lunisolar vs Tropical

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  32. 2018AD
    1500BC

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  33. Leap years

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  34. Leap years
    Leap seconds

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  35. Time in PHP

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  36. DateTimeInterface
    - DateTime (date, time, tz)
    - DateTimeImmutable

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  37. $date = $date->setTimezone(‘Asia/Kolkata');

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  38. $date = DateTimeImmutable::createFromMutable($mutable);

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  39. Change in PHP 7.1: microseconds

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  40. // Magic
    $date = new DateTimeImmutable(‘now’);
    $date = $date->modify(‘first day of next month’);

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  41. “now + 5 hours”
    “first day of next month”
    "first weekday”

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  42. “2016-03-00” → “2016-02-29”
    “2018-06-31” → “2018-07-01”

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  43. “69-12-31” → “2069-12-31”
    “70-01-01” → “1970-01-01”

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  44. nesbot/carbon - Mutable
    cakephp/chronos - Immutable

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  45. interface Clock
    {
    public function now(): DateTimeImmutable
    }

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  46. The future

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  47. E=mc²

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  48. c ~ 299.000.000m/s

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  51. Wrapping up

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  52. Thanks for your time!
    @hannesvdvreken
    @laravellivein

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  53. Time for questions.
    @hannesvdvreken
    @laravellivein

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