DateTime library

The DateTime library provides utilities to work with date and time formatting. Provided methods in this library are described below.

Usage

Method

Description

formatDate

Format the date to the internal format

isEmptyDate

Check whether provided date value is empty or null

Example

The following example shows how to format the current date and time into the internal format.

<?php

use Magento\Framework\Stdlib\DateTime;

...
    /**
     * @var DateTime
     */
    private $dateTime;

    /**
     * SomeClass constructor.
     *
     * @param DateTime $dateTime
     */
    public function __construct(DateTime $dateTime)
    {
        $this->dateTime = $dateTime;
    }

    /**
     * display current date to internal format time zone
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getFormatDate(): string
    {
    return $this->dateTime->formatDate(time());
    }
...