Clock

A simple interface to get the current time without binding to global system resources, plus configurable implementations that you can use in your unit tests.

Clock Usage

function yourCode(Clock $clock) {
    $time = $clock->now(); // Returns DateTimeImmutable. More testable than initializing a new instance
}

Clock interface:

interface Clock {
    public function now(): \DateTimeImmutable;
}

Provided implementations:

• SystemClock: Uses global system resources
• StubClock: Returns value provided in the constructor. Useful in tests
• CollectionClock: Returns specified values sequentially. Useful in tests
• IncrementingClock: Returns an incremented starting time infinitely. Useful in tests

Installation

To use the Clock library in your project, add a dependency on wmde/clock to your project's composer.json file. Here is a minimal example of a composer.json file that just defines a dependency on Clock 1.x:

{
    "require": {
        "wmde/clock": "~1.0"
    }
}

Development

For development you need to have Docker and the docker compose plugin installed. Local PHP and Composer are not needed.

Installing the development dependencies

To pull in the project dependencies (PHPUnit, PHPStan, etc.) via Composer, run:

make install-php

To update the dependencies, run

make update-php

Running the CI checks

To run all CI checks, which includes PHPUnit tests, PHPCS style checks and coverage tag validation, run:

make

Running the tests

To run only the PHPUnit tests run

make test

To run only a subset of PHPUnit tests or otherwise pass flags to PHPUnit, run

docker-compose run --rm app ./vendor/bin/phpunit --filter SomeClassNameOrFilter

Release notes

2.0.0 (2025-04-22)

Updated dev dependencies and increased PHP version requirements (to exert some pressure to update PHP).

1.0.0 (2018-09-26)

Initial release with Clock, SystemClock, StubClock, CollectionClock and IncrementingClock