date_create

(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

date_create — create a new DateTime object

说明

date_create(string $datetime = "now", ?DateTimeZone $timezone = null): DateTime|false

This is the procedural version of DateTime::__construct().

Unlike the DateTime constructor, it will return false instead of an exception if the passed in datetime string is invalid.

参数

See DateTimeImmutable::__construct.

返回值

Returns a new DateTime instance 或者在失败时返回 false

参见

DateTimeImmutable::__construct() - Returns new DateTimeImmutable object
DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat() - Parses a time string according to a specified format
DateTime::__construct() - 返回新的 DateTime 对象

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A. Go ¶

4 years ago

Notice php by default assume the give string as such format:
'-'    is    'y-m-d'
'/'    is    'm/d/y'

Unless the given string has Y or M,
that is year is written as full year '2019', or month is written as English shorthand 'Jan', 
the default assumption will be applied, where the date might be incorrect.

The following code show a quick test: (true as of php 7.2)
$date = [
    '2019-1-3',
    '19-1-3',
    '3-1-2019',
    '3-Jan-19',
    '3-1-19', //php assume as y-m-d not d-m-y

    '2019-3-1',
    '19-3-1',
    '1-3-2019',
    '1-3-19',

    '2019/3/1',
    '19/3/1', //fail, php think is month 19
    '1/3/2019', //php think is m/d/y
    '1/3/19'
];

//Y-M-d
foreach($date as $i => $d){
    echo $i ."\r\n";
    var_dump(date_format(date_create($d), 'Y-M-d'));
    echo "\r\n";
}

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