🛎️ Introduction

What is TimeHelper?

TimeHelper is a simple and user-friendly PHP Date and Time Helper Library that enables quick implementation of common date and time operations. It includes functionalities such as getting the number of seconds from a specified time, obtaining a user-friendly time format, checking time ranges, calculating the difference between two times, and providing timestamps for N hours/days/weeks/months/years ago or in the future, among other features.

What are the main features?

• Light: It does not rely on any extensions and is ready to use out of the box
• Easy: All methods can accept either arbitrary date and time formats or timestamps
• Smart: All operations can be accomplished with just one static method for each
• Long-term: The author is a freelancer committed to ensuring the project's long-term.

Why not Carbon?

There is no doubt that carbon, as a PHP time and date assistant class library, is very powerful, but I think it is still not simple enough. So TimeHelper appeared. Personal opinion, don’t comment if you don’t like it.

What is the original intention of open source?

Time and date operations are often used. At first, I just used it myself. Later, I made it into a Composer package and shared it with my friends. The response was pretty good. So I decided to improve the documentation, hoping that more programmers would not need to reinvent the wheel.