1--TEST-- 2Test __set_state magic method for recreating a DateTime object 3--CREDITS-- 4Mark Baker mark@lange.demon.co.uk at the PHPNW2017 Conference for PHP Testfest 2017 5--FILE-- 6<?php 7 8$datettimeObject = new DateTime('2017-10-06 23:30:00', new DateTimezone('UTC')); 9 10$datetimeState = var_export($datettimeObject, true); 11 12eval("\$datetimeObjectNew = {$datetimeState};"); 13 14var_dump($datetimeObjectNew); 15 16?> 17--EXPECTF-- 18object(DateTime)#%d (3) { 19 ["date"]=> 20 string(26) "2017-10-06 23:30:00.000000" 21 ["timezone_type"]=> 22 int(3) 23 ["timezone"]=> 24 string(3) "UTC" 25} 26