PHP DateTimeZone returns empty object

Question

I'm trying to get DateTimeZone object, setting it the following way:

$dateTimeZoneRemote = new DateTimeZone('America/Edmonton'); 

However printing it out returns an empty object??

print_r( $dateTimeZoneRemote );

returns:

DateTimeZone Object ( )

Running PHP 5.2.17

Answer 1

The problem here is that print_r / var_dump / get_object_vars don't show the properties of DateTimeZone as you expect. This was a bug , fixed in PHP 5.5.

Whatever, using the methods that the class provide, you get the correct result in any version.

$dateTimeZoneRemote = new DateTimeZone('America/Edmonton'); 
echo $dateTimeZoneRemote->getName(); // print America/Edmonton

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