The Daily WTF

In the US, we “fell back”- that is to say we abandoned Daylight Saving Time and moved back to Standard Time, and I think the general consensus is that time changes are the real WTF.

So let’s use this as a moment to look at some bad date handling code, an evergreen topic.

First, we turn to Adam, who’s doing some minor work on an old PHP application.

# Yes this is really how you do date constants in PHP now 🙁 define(‘XXXCutoffDate’, (new DateTime(YEAR . ‘-01-19 00:00:00’, new DateTimeZone(‘America/Chicago’)))->getTimestamp() );

This isn’t inherently how you have to do date constants, but it’s certainly a way to do date constants. Somehow, despite going the route of using constructors and objects, the original developer still managed to find a way to work string concatenation into the process, making this possibly the most PHP of all PHP code.

From Tomasz, we

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