how can I block Yii::$app->formatter->asDate() to convert the datetime I pass to it?

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

I wanted just to use Yii::$app->formatter->asDate() to format how the datetime should be displayed without converting to another timezone; but what I noticed is it also converting the passed datetime to the application timzone.

So how can I block that behaviour and just receive my datetime as it but displayed accordling to the application language(I thought formatter is just for displaying accordling to the current language)?

2

I’ve noticed that Yii::$app->formatter->asDate() is converting the date from the one timezone to the application’s current timezone.

What I want is just to format date according to this format php:D d-M-Y H:i:s without converting the date to a timezone because it display the day and month in current language.

Here is what I have in my code:


echo Yii::$app->formatter->asDatetime('2016-3-1 10:08:27','php:D d-M-Y H:i:s');

My timezone is

; 2016-3-1 10:08:27 is what mysql database is giving me meaning it is already in my timezone. The problem is the up echo is displaying

instead of

but if I don’t use Yii::$app->formatter->asDatetime it is displaying correctly.

How can I do that?

3

How can I solve this problem?

4

Set the default time zone?

I tend to have this in ‘index.php’ :


date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

You can probably set it to Nairobi :)

5

It doesn’t work and one thing is before even call


Yii::$app->formatter->asDate()

if I try to


echo Yii::$app->getTimeZone()

it is returning the correct timezone.

I am using Yii2 timezone extension to get client timezone and it is getting it perfectly.

6

I guess that what you see is Yii displaying the time using UTC - you need to tell the formatter what timezone you want it to use:

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-i18n-formatter.html#$defaultTimeZone-detail

I haven’t really used this myself yet - I am using PHP directly for this - but I think that is the problem. Tell it to use your timezone.

7

To it I have to specify the timezone explicitly since the default timezone(UTC) is not the same with my timezone(africa/Nairobi). Here is how to specify:


Yii::$app->formatter->asDatetime('2016-3-1 10:08:27' . Yii::$app->getTimeZone(),'php:D d-M-Y H:i:s');

//Result is 2016-3-1 10:08:27
8

I have UCI version 51.1 on my local computer but online UCI version 54.1; the problem is the previous solution is working on my local computer but online if I add the timezone it displays the date in UTC and if I remove the timezone it’s displaying the date correctly.

I try to accuse the version but have not found enough theory to support the accusion.

I really don’t get it!!!! I have to pass through all my code to remove the timezone I added; before doing that I wanted to know if my accusation is correct and move on.