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Bug #73301 DateTime::setTime breaks backwards compatibility
Submitted: 2016-10-12 11:53 UTC Modified: 2016-10-12 13:25 UTC
From: sjon at hortensius dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 7.1Git-2016-10-12 (Git) OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2016-10-12 11:53 UTC] sjon at hortensius dot net 
Description:
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DateTime::setTime was changed between RC3 and RC4 in a backward breaking way which seems highly unwanted.

Warning: Declaration of Custom_DateTime::setTime($hour, $minute, $second = 0) should be compatible with DateTime::setTime($hour, $minute, $second = NULL, $microseconds = NULL)

This causes applications to break; why was $second=0 not kept as a default?

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 [2016-10-12 12:22 UTC] nikic@php.net 
This is not related to the default value (which has not changed). We generally do not allow removing parameters, even optional ones, from method signatures: https://3v4l.org/i1Btt
 [2016-10-12 12:37 UTC] sjon at hortensius dot net 
Ah, right; I was thrown off by the Exception message. It's nice functionality; and I'm not saying DateTime::setMicroTime would be better; but I'm also not sure about the timing of this feature.

Apparently quite a few issues were fixed by introducing this @ https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/55626549d81d0feadb1d160be78fcf2b898a48cc#diff-7b738accc3d60f74c259da18588ddc5d
 [2016-10-12 13:25 UTC] derick@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2016-10-12 13:25 UTC] derick@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

This works as it supposed to be. There were no changes to the original defaults.
This addition was part of supporting, and fixing, microtime support across the board.
 
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