Why Your PHP Dates Keep Breaking

Why Your PHP Dates Keep Breaking (And How to Fix It) Ever spent hours debugging mysterious date bugs in your PHP code? You're probably using DateTime when you should be using DateTimeImmutable. In this quick tutorial, I'll show you the common DateTime mistake that breaks beginners' code and how to fix it in 60 seconds.

What You'll Learn:
Why DateTime causes unexpected bugs
How DateTimeImmutable prevents date mutation issues

00:00 Intro
01:13 The Problem with DateTime
01:49 DateTimeImmutable to the Rescue
02:19 Working with Timezones
03:38 Using DatePeriod for Date Ranges
04:55 Creating an AppDateTime Class
05:30 What You Need To Know
05:57 Outro
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