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spaceonfire/clock
=================

Enhanced DateTime classes and Clock API implementation

3.0.x-dev(4y ago)0521MITPHPPHP ^7.4|^8.0

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Clock by spaceonfire
====================

[](#clock-by-spaceonfire)

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This component provides enhanced **DateTime** classes and **Clock** API implementations in PHP.

Install
-------

[](#install)

Via Composer

```
$ composer require spaceonfire/clock
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

DateTime:

```
use spaceonfire\Clock\DateTimeImmutableValue;

$time = DateTimeImmutableValue::now();
// $time = DateTimeImmutableValue::from('2020-02-02 20:22:02');
// $time = DateTimeImmutableValue::from(3 * DateTimeImmutableValue::HOUR); // now + 3 hours

\assert($time instanceof \DateTimeImmutable);

echo (string)$time;
// 2020-02-02 20:22:02
echo \json_encode($time);
// 2020-02-02T20:22:02+00:00
```

Clock:

```
use spaceonfire\Clock\FrozenClock;
use spaceonfire\Clock\SystemClock;

$clock = new FrozenClock(SystemClock::fromUTC());
$startedAt = $clock->now();
\sleep(5);
$finishedAt = $clock->now();
\assert($startedAt === $finishedAt);

$clock->reset();
```

Change log
----------

[](#change-log)

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

[Report issues](https://github.com/spaceonfire/spaceonfire/issues) and [send Pull Requests](https://github.com/spaceonfire/spaceonfire/pulls) in the [main spaceonfire repository](https://github.com/spaceonfire/spaceonfire). Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/spaceonfire/spaceonfire/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) and [CODE\_OF\_CONDUCT](https://github.com/spaceonfire/spaceonfire/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) for details.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Constantine Karnaukhov](https://github.com/hustlahusky)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

20

—

LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity37

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1506d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3947942?v=4)[Constantine Karnaukhov](/maintainers/tntrex)[@tntrex](https://github.com/tntrex)

---

Top Contributors

[![tntrex](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3947942?v=4)](https://github.com/tntrex "tntrex (1 commits)")

---

Tags

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