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marcelo pereira
3,201 Pointsdoes not make sense
What would the output be from the following code? $mike = new DateTime('August 4th 1986'); $sally = new DateTime('July 1st 1988'); var_dump($sally < $mike);
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Ron McCranie
7,837 PointsThe answer is FALSE because $sally < $mike is the same as saying July 1st 1988 is less than August 4th 1986 which is not true.
marcelo pereira
3,201 Pointsmarcelo pereira
3,201 Pointssince both are DateTime code, is it the same as saying who was born on August 4th 1986 is older than who was born on July 1st 1988' ? So making it true in a date sense ?
Ron McCranie
7,837 PointsRon McCranie
7,837 PointsIt would be true if it were comparing the 'ages' of people born on those days, but it's comparing the exact date of those two days.
Niclas Valentiner
8,947 PointsNiclas Valentiner
8,947 PointsThe best way to explain why it's not comparing the ages but the 'days' is that it works like comparing 2 integers.
I don't know if you know unix timestamps but it works pretty much the same: it's a number counting upwards the 'further in time' it is. Like 1988 is higher than 1986 because it's further from 0.