⏱ PHP .NET Ticks
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This package helps PHP developers work with and convert .NET ticks, a form of precise time measurement used by the .NET DateTime object., (*2)
Features
You can use this library to do the following, and more., (*3)
- Convert ticks to timestamp
- Convert ticks to
DateTime object
- Convert ticks to
Carbon date object
- Get the current time in ticks
- Convert timestamp to ticks
What are .NET ticks?
A single tick represents one hundred nanoseconds or one ten-millionth of a second. There are 10,000 ticks in a millisecond, or 10 million ticks in a second., (*4)
The value of this property [DateTime.Ticks] represents the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since 12:00:00 midnight, January 1, 0001 (0:00:00 UTC on January 1, 0001, in the Gregorian calendar), which represents DateTime.MinValue. It does not include the number of ticks that are attributable to leap seconds., (*5)
Source: .NET API Reference: DateTime.Tick Property, (*6)
Installation
The PHP .NET Ticks package can be easily installed using Composer. Just run the following command from the root of your project., (*7)
composer require divineomega/php-dot-net-ticks
If you have never used the Composer dependency manager before, head to the Composer website for more information on how to get started., (*8)
Usage
First you need to create a new Ticks object. This can be done in several ways., (*9)
use DivineOmega\DotNetTicks\Ticks;
// Current time
$ticks = new Ticks();
// Specific time in ticks
$ticks = new Ticks(636536021491253348);
// From timestamp
$ticks = Ticks::createFromTimestamp(1518005349);
You can then call methods on the Ticks object to retrieve or convert as necessary., (*10)
$ticks = $ticks->ticks(); // Ticks
$time = $ticks->timestamp(); // UNIX timstamp
$dateTime = $ticks->dateTime(); // PHP DateTime object
$carbon = $ticks->carbon(); // Carbon date object
If you wish, you can combine these two steps into one line, as shown in the examples below., (*11)
// Get current time in ticks
$nowInTicks = (new Ticks())->ticks();
// Convert ticks to timestamp
$timestamp = (new Ticks(636536021491253348))->timestamp();
// Convert timestamp to ticks
$ticks = Ticks::createFromTimestamp(1518005349)->ticks();
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