I'm currently working on a project in which I create fixtures with Alice-bundle to run tests to make sure my API-endpoints work properly. Everything works fine, except for the DateTime properties.
No matter what string I pass it, eg: <dateTime('2019-09-23 14:00:00')>, it always gives me the wrong date and time, usually something like: 1998-10-25T14:29:45+01:00.
Even using <dateTime('now')> does not work -- it gives me some pre-2000s date & time as well, while that's exactly what some examples I'd found do use.
A fixture could look something like this:
Path\To\Task\Entity:
my_task:
title: 'My tasks'
description: 'These are all the tasks just for me!!!'
startsAt: <dateTime('now')>
endsAt: <dateTime('now')>
createdBy: '@some_higher_user'
Ideally I just want to pass it a string so I can define both a Date and Time and make sure it works properly, in the right format.
And help would be appreciated.
Looking here https://github.com/nelmio/alice/blob/master/doc/advanced-guide.md#functions we read:
function can be a Faker or a PHP native (or registered in the global scope) function.
So I would recommend trying a PHP native function that creates a \DateTime object
<date_create_from_format ( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' , '2019-09-23 14:00:00')>
// or
<date_create('now')>