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static string get()

Given a $format, and a $timestamp, return the date in the format provided. This function is a basic wrapper for PHP's date function. If the $timestamp is omitted, the current timestamp will be used. Optionally, you pass a timezone identifier with this function to localise the output

Parameters

• $format A valid PHP date format

• $timestamp (optional) A unix timestamp to format. 'now' or omitting this parameter will result in the current time being used

• $timezone (optional) The timezone associated with the timestamp

Returns

The formatted date.

See Also

• http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

static string getGMT()

A wrapper for get, this function will force the GMT timezone.

Parameters

• $format A valid PHP date format

• $timestamp (optional) A unix timestamp to format. 'now' or omitting this parameter will result in the current time being used

Returns

The formatted date in GMT

static string getTimeAgo()

A wrapper for get, this function will return a HTML string representing an <abbr> element which contained the formatted date of now, and an RFC 2822 formatted date (Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200) as the title attribute. Symphony uses this in it's status messages so that it can dynamically update how long ago the action took place using Javascript.

Parameters

• $format A valid PHP date format

Returns

A HTML string of an <abbr> element with a class of 'timeago' and the current date (RFC 2822) as the title element. The value is the current time as specified by the $format.

static void setDefaultTimezone()

Uses PHP's datedefaulttimezone_set function to set the system timezone. If the timezone provided is invalid, a E_USER_WARNING will be raised.

Parameters

• $timezone A valid timezone identifier, such as UTC or Europe/Lisbon

See Also

• http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php
• http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php