Why Dates and Times are HARD!
Dates and times are hard (and not just in Laravel or PHP!), but they aren't broken.
Most of the time, they work fine, but when they don't - it can be super confusing. From off-by-one errors and almost borderline unexplainable results from calculations - it's easy to fear dates.
But don't.
Accept the fact that dates can be weird because dates are weird in the real world, too!
In this video, I explore a recent issue I encountered when quickly writing a script to get some data within a date range. The data returned was not what I expected - and off by quite a lot!
But, as I show within the video, there was a (relatively) logical explanation for this, and some simple fixes. And, at the end, I'll share some advice for working with dates.
You can read more about the date formats in PHP on the docs:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetim...
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0:00 Intro
0:22 Problem
2:22 Explanation
2:55 Solution
3:30 Advice
4:33 Outro
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Credits:
Michael McIntyre / BBC
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