chrisharrison/clock

A PHP 7 clock interface.

clock

A PHP 7 clock interface., _(*1)

, _(*2)

Installation

Through Composer, obviously:, _(*3)

composer require chrisharrison/clock

Examples

Frozen clock (useful for testing)

$frozenClock = new \ChrisHarrison\Clock\FrozenClock(new \DateTime('1988-05-01 16:00:00'));
echo $frozenClock->now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo $frozenClock->now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo $frozenClock->now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Outputs:, _(*4)

1988-05-01 16:00:00
1988-05-01 16:00:00
1988-05-01 16:00:00

System clock (has a hard dependency on the underlying operating system's clock)

$systemClock = new \ChrisHarrison\Clock\SystemClock;
echo $systemClock->now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo $systemClock->now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo $systemClock->now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Outputs:, _(*5)

2017-10-01 20:43:22
2017-10-01 20:43:23
2017-10-01 20:43:24