* date_parse_from_format(): Parse date/time strings according to a format.
* date_create_from_format()/DateTime::createFromFormat(): Create a date/time
object by parsing a date/time string according to a given format.
* date_get_last_errors()/DateTime::getLastErrors(): Return a list of warnings
and errors that were found while parsing a date/time string through:
- strtotime() / new DateTime
- date_create_from_format() / DateTime::createFromFormat()
- date_parse_from_format()
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pattern '(A|a) .+').
- MFH: Fixed bug #41844 (Format returns incorrect number of digits for negative
years -0001 to -0999).
- MFH: Fixed bug #41842 (Cannot create years < 0100 & negative years with
date_create or new DateTime).
- MFH: Fixed bug #41709 (strtotime() does not handle 00.00.0000).
- MFH: Fixed bug #41523 (strtotime('0000-00-00 00:00:00') is parsed as
1999-11-30).
identifiers). (Derick)
- MFH: Fixed bug #36988 (mktime freezes on long numbers). (Derick)
- MFH: Implemented better error and warning handling that is also used for the
date_parse() function.
- MFH: Fixed problems with "T" in front of a time string was seen as a time
zone string.
- MFH: Fixed a problem were 5 and 6 character timezone abbreviations where not
correctly parsed.
Experimental support (All MFH):
- Added the date_parse() function that returns a parsed date/time string
including warnings and errors.
- Added the timezone_name_from_abbr() function that exposes the guessing
mechanism that tries to find a timezone identifier from a timezone
abbreviation and GMT offset.
- Fixed bug #34087 (strtotime() does not work with date format "Y/m/d").
- Make use of YYMAXFILL.
- Added support for using a . as hour/minute/second separator.
- Fixed problems with lone years in strtotime().
- Added functions to timelib to get a list of all abbreviations and timezone
identifiers.
- Fixed problems with parsed dates that only have GMT offsets associated
with them.
- Fixed a Windows compile problem.
- Added special constants for different often used date formats (DATE_ISO8601,
DATE_RFC822, DATE_RSS etc).
- Fixed date_default_timezone_get() to return the guessed timezone if none
was set yet with date_default_timezone_set().
- Added experimental support for Date/Timezone objects as per specifications.