How to render a DateTime object in a Twig template

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One of my fields in one of my entities is a  datetime  variable   How can I convert this field into a string to render in a browser   Here is a code snippet      for game in games                     lt td gt    game gameTeamIdOne teamName    lt  td gt           lt td gt    game gameTeamIdTwo teamName    lt  td gt           lt td gt    game gameDate   lt  td gt       lt  tr gt     endfor      Here is the variable in my entity class           var date  gameDate        ORM Column name  GAME DATE   type  datetime   nullable true      private  gameDate    And here is the error message I am getting      An exception has been thrown during the rendering of a template   Catchable Fatal Error       Object of class DateTime could not be converted to string in     app cache dev twig 9b ad 58fd3bb1517632badf1fdc7fa4a8 php line 33   in  BeerBundle Games gameTable html twig  at line 10

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you can render in following way     post published at date  m d Y       For more details can visit http   twig sensiolabs org doc filters date html

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I know this is a pretty old question  but I found this question today  but the answers were not what I needed   So here s what I needed   If you  like me  are looking to display the current date in twig  you can use the following       now  date  m d Y       See documentation about this   date in twig

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To avoid error on null value you can use this code      game gameDate   game gameDate date  Y-m-d H i s

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Although you can use the     game gameDate date  Y-m-d        approach  keep in mind that this version does not honor the user locale  which should not be a problem with a site used by only users of one nationality  International users should display the game date totally different  like extending the  DateTime class  and adding a   toString   method to it that checks the locale and acts accordingly   Edit   As pointed out by  Nic in a comment  if you use the Intl extension of Twig  you will have a localizeddate filter available  which shows the date in the user   s locale  This way you can drop my previous idea of extending  DateTime

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It depends on the format you want the date to be shown as   Static date format  If you want to display a static format  which is the same for all locales  for instance ISO 8601 for an Atom feed   you should use Twig s date filter      game gameDate date  Y-m-d  TH i sP        Which will allways return a datetime in the following format      2014-05-02T08 55 41Z   The format strings accepted by the date filter are the same as you would use for PHP s date   function   the only difference is that  as far as I know  you can t use the predefined constants which can be used in the PHP date   function   Localized dates  and times   However  since you want to render it in the browser  you ll likely want to show it in a human-readable format  localised for the user s language and location  Instead of doing the localization yourself  you can use the Intl Extension for this  which makes use of PHP s IntlDateFormatter   It provides a filter localizeddate which will output the date and time using a localized format   localizeddate  date format  time format    locale       Arguments for localizeddate    date format  One of the format strings  see below  time format  One of the format strings  see below  locale   optional  Use this to override the configured locale  Leave this argument out to use the default locale  which can be configured in Symfony s configuration     there are more  see the docs for the complete list of possible arguments   For date format and time format you can use one of the following strings     none  if you don t want to include this element  short  for the most abbreviated style  12 13 52 or 3 30pm in an English locale   medium  for the medium style  Jan 12  1952 in an English locale   long  for the long style  January 12  1952 or 3 30 32pm in an English locale   full  for the completely specified style  Tuesday  April 12  1952 AD or 3 30 42pm PST in an English locale    Example  So  for instance  if you want to display the date in a format equivalent to February 6  2014 at 10 52 AM  use the following line in your Twig template      game gameDate localizeddate  long    short        However  if you use a different locale  the result will be localized for that locale    6 februari 2014 10 52 for the nl locale  6 f  vrier 2014 10 52 for the fr locale  6  Februar 2014 10 52 for the de locale  etc    As you can see  localizeddate does not only translate the month names but also uses the local notations  The English notation puts the date after the month  where Dutch  French and German notations put it before the month  English and German month names start with an uppercase letter  whereas Dutch and French month names are lowercase  And German dates have a dot appended   Installation   setting the locale  Installation instructions for the Intl extension can be found in this seperate answer

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game gameDate   date  c         2014-02-05T16 45 22 00 00   For full date time string including timezone offset

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Dont forget       ORM HasLifecycleCallbacks     Entity               Set gameDate                ORM PrePersist             public function setGameDate                  this- gt dateCreated   new  DateTime             return  this          View       item gameDate date  Y-m-d H i s            Output  2013-09-18 16 14 20

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There is a symfony2 tool to display date in the current locale      user createdAt localeDate    to have a medium date and no time  in the current locale     user createdAt localeDate  long   medium      to have a long date and medium time  in the current locale   https   github com michelsalib BCCExtraToolsBundle

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You can use date filter      game gameDate date  m d Y

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