Componenta Clock

PSR-20 clock and datetime factory abstractions for deterministic time handling.

Installation

composer require componenta/clock

The package declares Componenta\Clock\ConfigProvider in extra.componenta.config-providers. When componenta/composer-plugin is installed, the provider is added to the generated provider list automatically.

Requirements

• PHP 8.4+
• psr/clock

Related Packages

Package	Why it matters here
psr/clock	Defines ClockInterface for domain and application code.
componenta/di	Registers ClockInterface and DateTimeFactoryInterface through ConfigProvider.
componenta/cqrs	Commands and handlers can depend on clocks instead of constructing time directly.
componenta/session	Can use time for TTL, activity, and expiration logic.

What It Provides

• Clock: minimal UTC PSR-20 clock.
• DateTimeFactoryInterface: PSR-20 clock plus date creation methods.
• DateTimeFactory: production datetime factory with timezone support.
• FrozenClock: deterministic test clock and factory.
• Typed exceptions for invalid timezones and datetime parsing failures.

DateTimeFactory

use Componenta\Clock\DateTimeFactory;

$clock = new DateTimeFactory('Europe/Kaliningrad');

$now = $clock->now();
$today = $clock->today();
$fromTimestamp = $clock->fromTimestamp(1_700_000_000);
$parsed = $clock->parse('2026-06-07 12:00:00');
$fromFormat = $clock->fromFormat('Y-m-d', '2026-06-07');

The configured timezone is exposed as a read-only property:

$clock->timezone->getName();

Change timezone immutably:

$utc = $clock->withTimezone('UTC');

withTimezone() returns the same instance when the requested timezone is already active.

FrozenClock

Use FrozenClock in tests or deterministic workflows.

use Componenta\Clock\FrozenClock;

$clock = new FrozenClock('2026-06-07 12:00:00', 'UTC');

$clock->now();      // fixed point in time
$clock->advance('+1 day');
$clock->freeze('2026-06-10 09:00:00');

DI Registration

ConfigProvider registers:

• DateTimeFactory::class factory
• Psr\Clock\ClockInterface alias to DateTimeFactoryInterface
• DateTimeFactoryInterface alias to DateTimeFactory