[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] New procedural function intl_date_format() for PHP 8.7

[Weilin Du]

Hi Sepehr

Can you please explain the advantage you see in using
your proposed API instead of:

```
$formatter = new IntlDateFormatter(
    'fa_IR@calendar=persian',
    IntlDateFormatter::NONE,
    IntlDateFormatter::NONE,
    'UTC',
    IntlDateFormatter::TRADITIONAL,
    'yyyy/MM/dd',
);
echo $formatter->format(strtotime('2026-09-27 UTC')); // ۱۴۰۵/۰۷/۰۵
```

To justify the addition into the extension?

BR,
Weilin Du