PHP - Show the date with hours, minutes and seconds set to zero [closed]

Question

I need a DateTime object that sets hours, minutes and seconds to '00:00:00'

Why does the following still output '20:53:19' instead of '00:00:00'?

const DATETIME_TO_MYSQL_DATETIME = 'Y-m-d H:i:s';
const DATE_FORMAT = 'j.n.Y';
    $this->today = DateTime::createFromFormat(self::DATE_FORMAT, (new DateTime())->format(self::DATE_FORMAT));
   die($this->today->format(self::DATETIME_TO_MYSQL_DATETIME));

Output: 2013-12-02 20:53:19

Answer 1

Use:

const DATETIME_TO_MYSQL_DATETIME = 'Y-m-d 00:00:00';

if you want the hours/minutes/seconds to be 00:00:00, regardless of time.

Answer 2

Just use:

$this->today = new DateTime('today');