Magento 2 – Create Date Time Instance

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How can I create Date time Instance in Magento For example 11-30-2016 5:00:00 pm.
remember this should be a datetime variable and not a string variable so that I can do Datetime operations on it.

Best Answer

You can use php Datetime object

$date = new \DateTime('now');
echo $date->format('m-d-Y h:i:s a');

Magento framework also suggests classes for doing that. You need to inject in your construct method this class

public function __construct(
    \Magento\Framework\Stdlib\DateTime\DateTime $date
) {
    $this->date = $date;
}

and then get the time with

$this->date->gmtDate();

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Magento – create date and time attribute for product in magento 2

One of the possible solutions is to use Modifiers. You would need to define a modifier in Vendor\Module\etc\adminhtml\di.xml and then create the modifier itself in Vendor\Module\Ui\DataProvider\Product\Form\Modifier\Datetime.php. The modifier should set time config for your attribute.

Please refer to this answer here for more info: Magento 2 Create Date with Time attribute for product

Magento 2 – Get Current Date and Time in .phtml File

You can use this in phtml file :

$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$objDate = $objectManager->create('Magento\Framework\Stdlib\DateTime\DateTime');
$date = $objDate->gmtDate();

But using directly object manager in phtml file is not a good practice.

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