How can I create Date time Instance in Magento For example 11-30-2016 5:00:00 pm.
remember this should be a datetime variable and not a string variable so that I can do Datetime operations on it.
You can use php Datetime object
$date = new \DateTime('now');
echo $date->format('m-d-Y h:i:s a');
Magento framework also suggests classes for doing that. You need to inject in your construct method this class
public function __construct(
\Magento\Framework\Stdlib\DateTime\DateTime $date
) {
$this->date = $date;
}
and then get the time with
$this->date->gmtDate();
answered Nov 30 '16 at 20:18
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Thank you so much for your time. But I need to do something like new DateTime("2016-11-30 20:26:26")). This is working in phtml file but not in helper or block. – chin Dec 1 '16 at 3:52
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why it's not working on helper or block? Give more details. I think that you can combine both objects and get what you want. I've used magento framework datetime object in models and it's working perfect. I don't think that this is not working for blocks or helpers. – Miroslav Petroff Dec 1 '16 at 8:00
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