Creating DateTime from timestamp in PHP < 5.3

Question

How do you create a DateTime from timestamp in versions less than < 5.3?

In 5.3 it would be:

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('U', $timeStamp); 

The DateTime constructor wants a string, but this didn't work for me

$date = new DateTime("@$timeStamp"); 

Answer 1

PHP 5 >= 5.3.0

$date = new DateTime(); $date->setTimestamp($timeStamp); 

Edit: Added correct PHP version for setTimestamp

Answer 2

Assuming you want the date and the time and not just the date as in the previous answer:

$dtStr = date("c", $timeStamp); $date = new DateTime($dtStr); 

Seems pretty silly to have to do that though.