On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa wrote:
> On 26/11/12 12:25, Sebastian Krebs wrote:
> > 2012/11/26 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net>
> >
> > > I would to modify a \DateTime object to the current time, thus I wrote
> > > this:
> > >
> > > $d = new \DateTime('+1 hour');
> > > $d->modify('now');
> > >
> > > It did not work. Why? Because the documentation (http://php.net/datetime.*
> > > *formats.relative <http://php.net/datetime.formats.relative>) says: “Now
> > > - this is simply ignored”. Really? But the behavior is pretty
> > > straightforward isn't? “modify to now” means “set to the current date and
> > > time and let the timezone unchanged”.
> > >
> > It's not like "modify to something", but "modify _with_ something". With
> > your point of view "modifiy('+7 days')" will _always_ point to next week,
> > but it should (and it's intuitive right), that it will point to 7 days
> > after the previous date. So what should "modify with now" mean?
> I understand the different, but then, why “now” is declared in the
> documentation :-) ?
Because people (like you) have tried it before and found it to not do as
they thought :-)
Derick
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