This class offers the methods listed below. All of the parsing methods set the returned DateTime
object's time zone to the UTC zone because SQLite does always uses UTC for date calculations. This means
your dates may seem to be one day off if you convert them to local time.
• parse_datetime($string)
Given a $string representing a date, this method will return a new "DateTime" object.
The $string may be in any of the formats understood by SQLite's "date", "time", "datetime",
"julianday" and "strftime" SQL functions or it may be in the format returned by these functions
(except "strftime", of course).
The time zone for this object will always be in UTC because SQLite assumes UTC for all date
calculations.
If $string contains no date, the parser assumes 2000-01-01 (just like SQLite).
If given an improperly formatted string, this method may die.
• parse_date($string)
• parse_time($string)
• parse_julianday($string)
These are aliases for "parse_datetime", for symmetry with "format_*" functions.
• format_date($datetime)
Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returnes a string in the format YYYY-MM-DD, i.e. in the same
format SQLite's "date" function uses.
• format_time($datetime)
Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returnes a string in the format HH:MM:SS, i.e. in the same
format SQLite's "time" function uses.
• format_datetime($datetime)
Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returnes a string in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, i.e. in
the same format SQLite's "datetime" function uses.
• format_julianday($datetime)
Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returnes a string in the format DDDDDDDDDD, i.e. in the same
format SQLite's "julianday" function uses.