Object oriented representation of time with microseconds. It like o'clock time without date, timezone or something else but cyclical for 24 hours.

It is for different purposes. DateTime uses for calendar (linear) time through ages. But this library is intended to represent periodical time day by day.

Let's look closer. Noon in Tokyo and noon in New York are different times in the world. Noon on the 1st of December and noon on the 2nd December are different times. But noon is still 12 o'clock.

It is still possible to use DateTime for o'clock time, but it has some disadvantages. Firstly, it is curly because it needs some "zero-date". Secondary, it is difficult to compare and calculate because of changing dates. Thirdly, it is buggy because of timezone conversions. Fourthly, it confuses with the DateTime type used as calendar time.

The preferred method of installation is via Composer. Run the following command to install the package and add it as a requirement to your project's composer.json:

composer require upyx/php-time

LocalTime can be created in three ways:

use Upyx\PhpTime\LocalTime;
$time1 = new LocalTime(10, 20, 30, 40000);
$time2 = LocalTime::fromDateTime(new DateTimeImmutable('10:20:30'));
$time3 = LocalTime::fromMicroseconds(3600000000);

There are "add" and "subtract" methods:

use Upyx\PhpTime\LocalTime;
$time1 = new LocalTime(10, 0);
$time2 = new LocalTime(13, 0);
var_dump($time1->cyclicAdd($time2)); // 23:00:00.000000
var_dump($time2->cyclicSubtract($time1)); // 03:00:00.000000
var_dump($time1->cyclicSubtract($time2)); // 21:00:00.000000

As time is periodical, there are two distances between two times in both directions. There is a method to calculate the smallest distance between ones:

use Upyx\PhpTime\LocalTime;
$time1 = new LocalTime(2, 0);
$time2 = new LocalTime(12, 0);
$time3 = new LocalTime(22, 0);
var_dump($time1->calcDistance($time2)); // 10:00:00.000000
var_dump($time2->calcDistance($time3)); // 10:00:00.000000
var_dump($time1->calcDistance($time3)); // 04:00:00.000000

It is possible to use comparison operators. The smallest value is "00:00:00.000000", the greatest one is "23:59:59.999999".

use Upyx\PhpTime\LocalTime;
$time1 = new LocalTime(10, 0);
$time2 = new LocalTime(13, 0);
var_dump($time1 < $time2); // true
var_dump($time1 <= $time2); // true
var_dump($time1 > $time2); // false
var_dump($time1 >= $time2); // false
var_dump($time1 <=> $time2); // -1

If you have a question, feel free to create an issue. If you would like to send me a pull request, please create an issue first.

The upyx/php-time library is copyright © Sergey Rabochiy and licensed for use under the MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.