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The IntlCalendar class

(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL >= 3.0.0a1)

Introduction

Class synopsis

class IntlCalendar {
/* Constants */
public const int FIELD_ERA;
public const int FIELD_YEAR;
public const int FIELD_MONTH;
public const int FIELD_WEEK_OF_YEAR;
public const int FIELD_WEEK_OF_MONTH;
public const int FIELD_DATE;
public const int FIELD_DAY_OF_YEAR;
public const int FIELD_DAY_OF_WEEK;
public const int FIELD_AM_PM;
public const int FIELD_HOUR;
public const int FIELD_HOUR_OF_DAY;
public const int FIELD_MINUTE;
public const int FIELD_SECOND;
public const int FIELD_MILLISECOND;
public const int FIELD_ZONE_OFFSET;
public const int FIELD_DST_OFFSET;
public const int FIELD_YEAR_WOY;
public const int FIELD_DOW_LOCAL;
public const int FIELD_EXTENDED_YEAR;
public const int FIELD_JULIAN_DAY;
public const int FIELD_IS_LEAP_MONTH;
public const int FIELD_FIELD_COUNT;
public const int FIELD_DAY_OF_MONTH;
public const int DOW_SUNDAY;
public const int DOW_MONDAY;
public const int DOW_TUESDAY;
public const int DOW_WEDNESDAY;
public const int DOW_THURSDAY;
public const int DOW_FRIDAY;
public const int DOW_SATURDAY;
public const int DOW_TYPE_WEEKDAY;
public const int DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND;
public const int WALLTIME_FIRST;
public const int WALLTIME_LAST;
public const int WALLTIME_NEXT_VALID;
/* Methods */
private __construct()
public add(int $field, int $value): bool
public after(IntlCalendar $other): bool
public before(IntlCalendar $other): bool
public clear(?int $field = null): true
public equals(IntlCalendar $other): bool
public fieldDifference(float $timestamp, int $field): int|false
public static fromDateTime(DateTime|string $datetime, ?string $locale = null): ?IntlCalendar
public get(int $field): int|false
public getActualMaximum(int $field): int|false
public getActualMinimum(int $field): int|false
public static getAvailableLocales(): array
public getDayOfWeekType(int $dayOfWeek): int|false
public static getKeywordValuesForLocale(string $keyword, string $locale, bool $onlyCommon): IntlIterator|false
public getLeastMaximum(int $field): int|false
public getLocale(int $type): string|false
public getMaximum(int $field): int|false
public getMinimum(int $field): int|false
public static getNow(): float
public getTime(): float|false
public getType(): string
public getWeekendTransition(int $dayOfWeek): int|false
public isLenient(): bool
public isSet(int $field): bool
public isWeekend(?float $timestamp = null): bool
public roll(int $field, int|bool $value): bool
public set(int $field, int $value): true
public set(
    int $year,
    int $month,
    int $dayOfMonth = NULL,
    int $hour = NULL,
    int $minute = NULL,
    int $second = NULL
): true
public setDate(int $year, int $month, int $dayOfMonth): void
public setDateTime(
    int $year,
    int $month,
    int $dayOfMonth,
    int $hour,
    int $minute,
    ?int $second = null
): void
public setFirstDayOfWeek(int $dayOfWeek): true
public setLenient(bool $lenient): true
public setTime(float $timestamp): bool
}

Predefined Constants

IntlCalendar::FIELD_ERA int

Calendar field numerically representing an era, for instance 1 for AD and 0 for BC in the Gregorian/Julian calendars and 235 for the Heisei (平成) era in the Japanese calendar. Not all calendars have more than one era.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_YEAR int

Calendar field for the year. This is not unique across eras. If the calendar type has more than one era, generally the minimum value for this field will be 1.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_MONTH int

Calendar field for the month. The month sequence is zero-based, so January (here used to signify the first month of the calendar; this may be called another name, such as Muharram in the Islamic calendar) is represented by 0, February by 1, …, December by 11 and, for calendars that have it, the 13th or leap month by 12.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_WEEK_OF_YEAR int

Calendar field for the number of the week of the year. This depends on which day of the week is deemed to start the week and the minimal number of days in a week.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_WEEK_OF_MONTH int

Calendar field for the number of the week of the month. This depends on which day of the week is deemed to start the week and the minimal number of days in a week.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_DATE int

Calendar field for the day of the month. The same as IntlCalendar::FIELD_DAY_OF_MONTH, which has a clearer name.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_DAY_OF_YEAR int

Calendar field for the day of the year. For the Gregorian calendar, starts with 1 and ends with 365 or 366.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_DAY_OF_WEEK int

Calendar field for the day of the week. Its values start with 1 (Sunday, see IntlCalendar::DOW_SUNDAY and subsequent constants) and the last valid value is 7 (Saturday).

IntlCalendar::FIELD_DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH int

Given a day of the week (Sunday, Monday, …), this calendar field assigns an ordinal to such a day of the week in a specific month. Thus, if the value of this field is 1 and the value of the day of the week is 2 (Monday), then the set day of the month is the 1st Monday of the month; the maximum value is 5.

Additionally, the value 0 and negative values are also allowed. The value 0 encompasses the seven days that occur immediately before the first seven days of a month (which therefore have a ‘day of week in month’ with value 1). Negative values starts counting from the end of the month – -1 points to the last occurrence of a day of the week in a month, -2 to the second last, and so on.

Unlike IntlCalendar::FIELD_WEEK_OF_MONTH and IntlCalendar::FIELD_WEEK_OF_YEAR, this value does not depend on IntlCalendar::getFirstDayOfWeek() or on IntlCalendar::getMinimalDaysInFirstWeek(). The first Monday is the first Monday, even if it occurs in a week that belongs to the previous month.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_AM_PM int

Calendar field indicating whether a time is before noon (value 0, AM) or after (1). Midnight is AM, noon is PM.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_HOUR int

Calendar field for the hour, without specifying whether itʼs in the morning or in the afternoon. Valid values are 0 to 11.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_HOUR_OF_DAY int

Calendar field for the full (24h) hour of the day. Valid values are 0 to 23.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_MINUTE int

Calendar field for the minutes component of the time.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_SECOND int

Calendar field for the seconds component of the time.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_MILLISECOND int

Calendar field the milliseconds component of the time.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_ZONE_OFFSET int

Calendar field indicating the raw offset of the timezone, in milliseconds. The raw offset is the timezone offset, excluding any offset due to daylight saving time.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_DST_OFFSET int

Calendar field for the daylight saving time offset of the calendarʼs timezone, in milliseconds, if active for calendarʼs time.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_YEAR_WOY int

Calendar field representing the year for week of year purposes.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_DOW_LOCAL int

Calendar field for the localized day of the week. This is a value between 1 and 7, 1 being used for the day of the week that matches the value returned by IntlCalendar::getFirstDayOfWeek().

IntlCalendar::FIELD_EXTENDED_YEAR int

Calendar field for a year number representation that is continuous across eras. For the Gregorian calendar, the value of this field matches that of IntlCalendar::FIELD_YEAR for AD years; a BC year y is represented by -y + 1.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_JULIAN_DAY int

Calendar field for a modified Julian day number. It is different from a conventional Julian day number in that its transitions occur at local zone midnight rather than at noon UTC. It uniquely identifies a date.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_MILLISECONDS_IN_DAY int

Calendar field encompassing the information in IntlCalendar::FIELD_HOUR_OF_DAY, IntlCalendar::FIELD_MINUTE, IntlCalendar::FIELD_SECOND and IntlCalendar::FIELD_MILLISECOND. Range is from the 0 to 24 * 3600 * 1000 - 1. It is not the amount of milliseconds elapsed in the day since on DST transitions it will have discontinuities analog to those of the wall time.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_IS_LEAP_MONTH int

Calendar field whose value is 1 for indicating a leap month and 0 otherwise.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_FIELD_COUNT int

The total number of fields.

IntlCalendar::FIELD_DAY_OF_MONTH int

Alias for IntlCalendar::FIELD_DATE.

IntlCalendar::DOW_SUNDAY int

Sunday.

IntlCalendar::DOW_MONDAY int

Monday.

IntlCalendar::DOW_TUESDAY int

Tuesday.

IntlCalendar::DOW_WEDNESDAY int

Wednesday.

IntlCalendar::DOW_THURSDAY int

Thursday.

IntlCalendar::DOW_FRIDAY int

Friday.

IntlCalendar::DOW_SATURDAY int

Saturday.

IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKDAY int

Output of IntlCalendar::getDayOfWeekType() indicating a day of week is a weekday.

IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND int

Output of IntlCalendar::getDayOfWeekType() indicating a day of week belongs to the weekend.

IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND_OFFSET int

Output of IntlCalendar::getDayOfWeekType() indicating the weekend begins during the given day of week.

IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND_CEASE int

Output of IntlCalendar::getDayOfWeekType() indicating the weekend ends during the given day of week.

IntlCalendar::WALLTIME_FIRST int

Output of IntlCalendar::getSkippedWallTimeOption() indicating that wall times in the skipped range should refer to the same instant as wall times with one hour less and of IntlCalendar::getRepeatedWallTimeOption() indicating the wall times in the repeated range should refer to the instant of the first occurrence of such wall time.

IntlCalendar::WALLTIME_LAST int

Output of IntlCalendar::getSkippedWallTimeOption() indicating that wall times in the skipped range should refer to the same instant as wall times with one hour after and of IntlCalendar::getRepeatedWallTimeOption() indicating the wall times in the repeated range should refer to the instant of the second occurrence of such wall time.

IntlCalendar::WALLTIME_NEXT_VALID int

Output of IntlCalendar::getSkippedWallTimeOption() indicating that wall times in the skipped range should refer to the instant when the daylight saving time transition occurs (begins).

Changelog

Version Description
8.4.0 The class constants are now typed.

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Doug
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Example obtaining a week and its boundaries (for building a calendar view):

<?php
$date
= new DateTime('now');
$locale = 'en_US';

$thisWeek = IntlCalendar::fromDateTime($date, $locale);
$thisWeek->set(IntlCalendar::FIELD_DAY_OF_WEEK, $thisWeek->getFirstDayOfWeek());
// $thisWeek now points to the first day of the week
$weekStart = $thisWeek->toDateTime();

$daysToAdvance = $thisWeek->getMaximum(IntlCalendar::FIELD_DAY_OF_WEEK) - 1;
// Maximum number of days in a week minus 1 gets you to the last day
$weekEnd = $weekStart->modify("+{$daysToAdvance} days");

$previousWeek = IntlCalendar::fromDateTime($date, $locale);
$previousWeek->add(IntlCalendar::FIELD_WEEK_OF_YEAR, -1);
$previousWeek = $previousWeek->toDateTime();

$nextWeek = IntlCalendar::fromDateTime($date, $locale);
$nextWeek->add(IntlCalendar::FIELD_WEEK_OF_YEAR, 1);
$nextWeek = $nextWeek->toDateTime();
?>
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