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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] DateTime::modify('now') is ignored, why?
From: inefedor@gmail.com ("Nikita Nefedov")

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:06:09 +0400, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa  =

<ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net> wrote:

> Hi internals,
>
> I would to modify a \DateTime object to the current time, thus I wrote=
  =

> this:
>
> $d =3D new \DateTime('+1 hour');
> $d->modify('now');
>
> It did not work. Why? Because the documentation  =

> (http://php.net/datetime.formats.relative) says: =E2=80=9CNow - this i=
s simply  =

> ignored=E2=80=9D. Really? But the behavior is pretty straightforward i=
sn't?  =

> =E2=80=9Cmodify to now=E2=80=9D means =E2=80=9Cset to the current date=
 and time and let the  =

> timezone unchanged=E2=80=9D.
>
> Thoughts?
> Best regards.
>

Shouldn't DateTime be immutable? What's the point of DateTime object bei=
ng  =

mutable?
I would include my point about why DateTime should be immutable but I ev=
en  =

can't come with any points except OO-logic and all I can say is I just  =

feel like mutable DateTime is wrong. What you think about it?

PS I'm not Nikita Popov (aka nikic) :)