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A Tale about Time - PHP.gent

A Tale about Time - PHP.gent

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

September 19, 2018
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  1. A Tale about Time
    @hannesvdvreken
    @phpgent

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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. 2018-09-18T19:00:00+02:00

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  13. EDT = UTC-04:00
    CEST = UTC+02:00

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  16. EDT = UTC-04:00
    CEST = UTC+02:00

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  17. '
    UTC+05:30

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  18. UTC+05:45

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  19. DST
    CET/CEST

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  20. 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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  23. EST/EDT - March 12
    CET/CEST - March 24

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  24. (

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  25. )/*

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  26. Calendars

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  27. Weeks - 7 days
    Starts on Monday. Or Sunday?
    First week of the year?

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  28. Months
    Lunar vs Tropical

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  29. Years
    Lunisolar vs Tropical

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  30. 2018AD
    1500BC

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  31. Leap years

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  32. Leap years
    Leap seconds

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  33. Storing vs Expressing time

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  34. Expressing time:
    6:00PM vs 18:00

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  35. Expressing time:
    September 18
    09/18/2018
    18/09/2018

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  36. Storing time:
    1521261900 ($dt->timestamp)

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  37. Storing time:
    1521261900
    >1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
    <2038-01-19T03:14:07+00:00 (32bit)

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  38. Storing time:
    RFC3339:
    2018-03-17T10:15:00+05:30

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  39. Storing time:
    RFC3339 extended:
    2018-03-17T10:15:00.000+05:30

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  40. Storing time:
    Sortable (in UTC):
    2018-03-17T05:45:00.000+00:00

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  41. Storing time:
    Sortable (in UTC):
    2018-03-17T05:45:00.000+00:00
    + user’s location for timezone & locale

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  42. Storing time:
    Sortable (in UTC):
    2018-03-17T05:45:00.000+00:00
    + user’s location for timezone & locale
    (europe/brussels)

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  43. Time in PHP

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  44. date()
    microtime()

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

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

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  47. Change in PHP 7.1: microseconds

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  48. // <7.1
    $date = new DateTimeImmutable(‘now’);
    $date->format(‘u’); // 00000
    // 7.1+
    $date = new DateTimeImmutable(‘now’);
    $date->format(‘u’); // actual microsecond info

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  49. $date = $date->setTimezone('Europe/Rome');

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

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

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  52. “2016-03-00” → “2016-02-29”
    “2018-06-31” → “2018-07-01”

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  53. “69-12-31” → “2069-12-31”
    “70-01-01” → “1970-01-01”

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

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  55. interface Clock
    {
    public function now(): DateTimeImmutable
    }
    class SystemClock implements Clock
    class TestClock implements Clock

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  56. The future

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  57. E=mc²

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  58. c ~ 299.000.000m/s

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  62. Wrapping up

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  63. Thanks for your time!
    @hannesvdvreken
    @phpgent

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  64. Time for questions.
    @hannesvdvreken
    @phpgent

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