So, I’d very much like to parse and format times with the same pattern, however, I think there might be a problem.
The function CDateFormatter->format() accepts a capital ‘H’ mask for 24h hours, whereas CDateTimeParser::parse() will result in false if parsing for a date with ‘H’ in it.
for example,
$timePattern=‘dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm’;
$date=Yii::app()->dateFormatter->format($timePattern,time());
$timestamp=CDateTimeParser::parse($date,$timePattern);
will result in boolean false in $timestamp.
$timestamp=CDateTimeParser::parse($date,‘dd.MM.yyyy hh:mm’);
will work good even with 24h timestamps, so there’s nothing wrong with the parsing, except its inability to recognize ‘H’.
This effectively means that as I want to format 24h timestamps, I’ll have to have two parse masks, one for parsing and one for formatting.
Or am I just missing something? I am using Yii version 1.0.7.