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mareg/rough-date
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Rough date object allowing dates like `Jan 2005` or `2006`

1.0.6(5y ago)11.2k—0%1GPL-3.0-onlyPHPPHP ^7.2, <7.5

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Rough Date
==========

[](#rough-date)

Needed to store a "rough date" in one of my project, may be useful for otheres.

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Installation
============

[](#installation)

Execute from shell the following command:

```
$ composer require mareg/rough-date
```

Or add `"mareg/rough-date": "^1.0"` to your `composer.json`:

```
    "require": {
        "mareg/rough-date": "^1.0"
    },
```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

Create a `RoughDate` object from the string:

```
$roughDate = RoughDate::fromString('May 2005');
echo $roughDate->format();
```

Or from a `DateTime` date object:

```
$date = new \DateTime();
$roughDate = RoughDate::fromDateTime($date);
echo $roughDate->format();
```

Accepted date formats
---------------------

[](#accepted-date-formats)

When creating an object through `RoughDate::fromString()`:

- `Y-m-d`, e.g. `2015-02-22`, but also `2013-05-00` and `2013-00-00` are correct
- `Y/m/d` and `Y.m.d` are accepted
- `j. M Y`, e.g. `13. May 2005`
- `M Y`, e.g. `May 1985`
- `Y`, e.g. `1978`

Output date formats
-------------------

[](#output-date-formats)

When calling `RoughDate::format()`:

- For a full date output accepts all variables as in [date()](http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php) method
- For other dates only available variables will be substituded and unavailable ones will be removed, e.g.:
- for date `2015-02-00` and format `j M Y` you'll get `Feb 2015`
- for date `1978-00-00` and format `j M Y` you'll get `1978`

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 88% of commits — single point of failure

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Every ~281 days

Recently: every ~214 days

Total

9

Last Release

1850d ago

Major Versions

0.1.3 → 1.0.12018-05-26

PHP version history (3 changes)0.1.1PHP >=5.4

1.0.1PHP >=7.2

1.0.3PHP ^7.2, <7.5

### Community

Maintainers

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