PHP DateTime::createFromFormat doesn't parse ISO 8601 date time

Question

Code speaks a million words:

php > echo strtotime("2010-12-07T23:00:00.000Z"); 1291762800 echo date('c', 1291762800); 2010-12-08T00:00:00+01:00 php > var_dump(DateTime::createFromFormat('c', "2010-12-07T23:00:00.000Z")); bool(false) php > var_dump(DateTime::createFromFormat(DateTime::ISO8601, "2010-12-07T23:00:00.000Z")); bool(false) 

Any idea what's going on?

Btw, yes, new DateTime("2010-12-07T23:00:00.000Z") works fine. But I prefer to know what input I am getting.

Answer 1

Parsing ISO8601 date, and also switching timezone:

// create ISO8601 dateTime  $date = DateTime::createFromFormat(DateTime::ISO8601, '2016-07-27T19:30:00Z');  // set to user's timezone $date -> setTimeZone('Asia/Singapore');  echo $date -> format(DateTime::ISO8601); // prints '2016-07-28T03:30:00+0800' 

Answer 2

There's a bug report that exactly describes your problem :)

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51950

Since 2016-08-07, the bug report has been marked as "not a bug". You need to use strtotime or new DateTime instead.

The constants that have been defined apply to both formatting and parsing in the same way, which forces your ways.