The DateInterval class

Introduction

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7)

Represents a date interval.

A date interval stores either a fixed amount of time (in years, months, days, hours etc) or a relative time string in the format that DateTime's constructor supports.

More specifically, the information in an object of the DateInterval class is an instruction to get from one date/time to another date/time. This process is not always reversible.

A common way to create a DateInterval object is by calculating the difference between two date/time objects through DateTimeInterface::diff().

Class synopsis

public static createFromDateString ( string $datetime ) : DateInterval|false

public format ( string $format ) : string

Properties

y

Number of years.

m

Number of months.

d

Number of days.

h

Number of hours.

i

Number of minutes.

s

Number of seconds.

f

Number of microseconds, as a fraction of a second.

invert

Is 1 if the interval represents a negative time period and 0 otherwise. See DateInterval::format().

days

If the DateInterval object was created by DateTime::diff(), then this is the total number of days between the start and end dates. Otherwise, days will be false.

Before PHP 5.4.20/5.5.4 instead of false you will receive -99999 upon accessing the property.

Changelog

Table of Contents

• DateInterval::__construct — Creates a new DateInterval object
• DateInterval::createFromDateString — Sets up a DateInterval from the relative parts of the string
• DateInterval::format — Formats the interval