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Datetime

inherits Object

methods

• init([year],[month],[day],[hour],[minute],[seconds],[milliseconds]) Create a datetime in the current timezone from the given values.
• to_string() outputs a string representation of the datetime in a json-compliant ISO8601 format. yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:ss.mmmZ
• year() get the year portion of the datetime
• month() get the month portion of the datetime
• day() get the day portion of the datetime
• hours() get the hours portion of the datetime
• minutes() get the minutes portion of the datetime
• seconds() get the seconds portion of the datetime
• milliseconds() get the milliseconds portion of the datetime

static methods

• now() returns a DateTime representing the current local time
• parse('to_parse', ['format']) parse a String into a DateTime. See here for format string specifiers. format defaults to ‘%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%6S%z’ which will parse the output of DateTime::to_string()

operators

• - subtracts either a datetime or a duration to the existing datetime. The returned type is the same as the operand.
• == compares two datetimes and returns true if they both represent the same point in time