This is the documentation for concrete5 version 5.6 and earlier. View Current Documentation

The Date helper provides functions useful for working with dates and times. These are general functions that any application or website might find useful.)

Loading the Helper

	$date = Loader::helper(‘date’); 

Methods

$r = $date->getLocalDateTime($systemDateTime = ‘now’, $mask = null)

Returns a date/time while checking a logged-in user’s timezone (if user timezones are enabled.)

Arguments

  • $systemDateTime - Will typically be “now”. This is passed to the PHP DateTime class. Other examples could be any sort of human-readable date.
  • $mask - null. This is the return format of the date, as specified by the date() function.
print $date->getLocalDateTime(); print $date->getLocalDateTime(‘now’, ‘F d, Y’); 

$r = $date->getSystemDateTime($userDateTime = now’, $mask = null)

Converts a user entered datetime to the system datetime. Returns a date string.

array $timezones = $date->getTimezones();

Gets a list of all timezones available.

string $timeRemaining = $date->timeSince($postTime, $precise = 0)

Returns a date string in a specific format, useful for a newsfeed, since a particular $postTime. If $precise == 1, the returns are more precise.

	$r = $date->timeSince($dateOfMyPost, 1); 	print $r; // “2 days, 1 hour”
Loading Conversation