IntlCalendar::setTime

Set the calendar time in milliseconds since the epoch

Description

Object-oriented style

public bool IntlCalendar::setTime(float $timestamp)

Procedural style

bool intlcal_set_time(IntlCalendar $calendar, float $timestamp)

Sets the instant represented by this object. The instant is represented by a float whose value should be an integer number of milliseconds since the epoch (1 Jan 1970 00:00:00.000 UTC), ignoring leap seconds. All the field values will be recalculated accordingly.

Parameters

calendar: An IntlCalendar instance.
timestamp: An instant represented by the number of number of milliseconds between such instant and the epoch, ignoring leap seconds.

Return Values

Returns true on success and false on failure.

Examples

Example #1 IntlCalendar::setTime

<?php
ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/Lisbon');
ini_set('intl.default_locale', 'fr_FR');

$cal = new IntlGregorianCalendar(2013, 5 /* May */, 1, 12, 0, 0);

echo IntlDateFormatter::formatObject($cal, IntlDateFormatter::FULL), "\n";

/* In Europe/Lisbon, on 2013-10-27 at 0200, the clock goes back one hour and
   the timezone from UTC+01 to UTC+00 */

$cal->setTime(strtotime('2013-10-27 00:30:00 UTC') * 1000.);

echo IntlDateFormatter::formatObject($cal, IntlDateFormatter::FULL), "\n";

$cal->setTime(strtotime('2013-10-27 01:30:00 UTC') * 1000.);

echo IntlDateFormatter::formatObject($cal, IntlDateFormatter::FULL), "\n";

The above example will output:

samedi 1 juin 2013 12:00:00 heure avancée d’Europe de l’Ouest
dimanche 27 octobre 2013 01:30:00 heure avancée d’Europe de l’Ouest
dimanche 27 octobre 2013 01:30:00 heure normale d’Europe de l’Ouest