phpdateintldateformatter

IntlDateFormatter returning the wrong year

If you run the following code

<?php

$date = new DateTime('2019-12-30 19:45:00', new DateTimeZone('Europe/London'));
$formatter = new IntlDateFormatter(
    'en_GB',
    null,
    null,
    'Europe/London',
    IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN,
    'MMMM YYYY'
);

echo $formatter->format($date);

it'll echo December 2020. Is this a bug with the class, or have I got something wrong, as I'd expect it to return December 2019

Solution

  • According to: https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/format_parse/datetime/

    Y stand for year of "Week of Year"(whatever it means) and y is regular year reference we got used to. So to get current year replace YYYY with yyyy and it should do the job