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Description

Creates a new instance of JDate representing a given date.

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Syntax

__construct($date= 'now', $tzOffset=0)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$date	'now'	$date optional the date this will represent.
$tzOffset	0	$tzOffset optional the timezone $date is from

Defined in

libraries/joomla/utilities/date.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.utilities.date' );

Source Body

function __construct($date = 'now', $tzOffset = 0)
{
        if ($date == 'now' || empty($date))
        {
                $this->_date = strtotime(gmdate("M d Y H:i:s", time()));
                return;
        }

        $tzOffset *= 3600;
        if (is_numeric($date))
        {
                $this->_date = $date - $tzOffset;
                return;
        }

        if (preg_match('~(?:(?:Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun),\\s+)?(\\d{1,2})\\s+([a-zA-Z]{3})\\s+(\\d{4})\\s+(\\d{2}):(\\d{2}):(\\d{2})\\s+(.*)~i',$date,$matches))
        {
                $months = Array(
                        'jan' => 1, 'feb' => 2, 'mar' => 3, 'apr' => 4,
                        'may' => 5, 'jun' => 6, 'jul' => 7, 'aug' => 8,
                        'sep' => 9, 'oct' => 10, 'nov' => 11, 'dec' => 12
                );
                $matches[2] = strtolower($matches[2]);
                if (! isset($months[$matches[2]])) {
                        return;
                }
                $this->_date = mktime(
                        $matches[4], $matches[5], $matches[6],
                        $months[$matches[2]], $matches[1], $matches[3]
                );
                if ($this->_date === false) {
                        return;
                }

                if ($matches[7][0] == '+') {
                        $tzOffset = 3600 * substr($matches[7], 1, 2)
                                + 60 * substr($matches[7], -2);
                } elseif ($matches[7][0] == '-') {
                        $tzOffset = -3600 * substr($matches[7], 1, 2)
                                - 60 * substr($matches[7], -2);
                } else {
                        if (strlen($matches[7]) == 1) {
                                $oneHour = 3600;
                                $ord = ord($matches[7]);
                                if ($ord < ord('M')) {
                                        $tzOffset = (ord('A') - $ord - 1) * $oneHour;
                                } elseif ($ord >= ord('M') && $matches[7] != 'Z') {
                                        $tzOffset = ($ord - ord('M')) * $oneHour;
                                } elseif ($matches[7] == 'Z') {
                                        $tzOffset = 0;
                                }
                        }
                        switch ($matches[7]) {
                                case 'UT':
                                case 'GMT': $tzOffset = 0;
                        }
                }
                $this->_date -= $tzOffset;
                return;
        }
        if (preg_match('~(\\d{4})-(\\d{2})-(\\d{2})[T\s](\\d{2}):(\\d{2}):(\\d{2})(.*)~', $date, $matches))
        {
                $this->_date = mktime(
                        $matches[4], $matches[5], $matches[6],
                        $matches[2], $matches[3], $matches[1]
                );
                if ($this->_date == false) {
                        return;
                }
                if (isset($matches[7][0])) {
                        if ($matches[7][0] == '+' || $matches[7][0] == '-') {
                                $tzOffset = 60 * (
                                        substr($matches[7], 0, 3) * 60 + substr($matches[7], -2)
                                );
                        } elseif ($matches[7] == 'Z') {
                                $tzOffset = 0;
                        }
                }
                $this->_date -= $tzOffset;
                return;
        }
$this->_date = (strtotime($date) == -1) ? false : strtotime($date);
        if ($this->_date) {
                $this->_date -= $tzOffset;
        }
}

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