PHP DateTime construct Failed to parse time string xxxxxxxx at position x

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I had this construction error when trying to creating a new DateTime object using a timestamp      Exception  DateTime   construct    Failed to parse time string  1372622987  at position 8  8   Unexpected character in DateTime-  construct     The object creation code is    start date   new DateTime      dbResult- gt db timestamp        Where  dbResult- db timestamp is a valid unix timestamp taken from a database  The timestamp in question was      1372622987   I would understand this error for invalid formats being passed  but this is a genuine timestamp   The reason this is very strange  I since ran a script to create a new DateTime object with the timestamp passed in as a hard coded value  and it reported no errors   This seems to have been a one off  but I need an explanation if there is one  as I can t afford for this to happen again

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This worked for me                 return date in specific format  given a timestamp                 param  timestamp   datetime         return string             public static function showDateString  timestamp              if   timestamp     NULL             date   new DateTime             date- gt setTimestamp intval  timestamp            return  date- gt format  d-m-Y                  return

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Use the createFromFormat method    start date   DateTime  createFromFormat  U    dbResult- gt db timestamp    UPDATE  I now recommend the use of Carbon

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change your code to this   start date   new DateTime         dbResult- gt db timestamp      and it will work fine

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You should use setTimestamp instead  if you hardcode it    start date   new DateTime     start date- gt setTimestamp 1372622987     in your case   start date   new DateTime     start date- gt setTimestamp  dbResult- gt db timestamp

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start date   new DateTime     start date- gt setTimestamp  dbResult- gt db timestamp

[php] PHP DateTime __construct() Failed to parse time string (xxxxxxxx) at position x

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