将字符串的格式模式更正为DateTime

Question

I have a string looking like this 2016-11-29T14:04:07+00:00, can anyone hint me what would be the correct format to in order to create a DateTime object using createFromFormat I have already tried some options but none of them seem to work until now.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Answer 1

DateTime has predefined constants for certain formats. Your date follows the ISO 8601 standard and its equivalent DateTime constant is called ATOM. So try:

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat(DateTime::ATOM, '2016-11-29T14:04:07+00:00');

Note that there is another constant called ISO8601 which is not compatible as stated in the documentation:

This format is not compatible with ISO-8601, but is left this way for backward compatibility reasons. Use DateTime::ATOM or DATE_ATOM for compatibility with ISO-8601 instead.