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Suppose I have a timestamp base field on an entity type. I can do $entity->timefield->value and get the UNIX timestamp.

But how do I get a DateTime object from this?

I can see there is a Timestamp::getDateTime() method which does exactly what I want. But that's the DataType class.

The field definition, TimestampItem, defines the 'value' property as a 'timestamp', so that is the Timestamp datatype. But I can't figure out how to get from one to the other.

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  • You can instantiate a Datetime object with a Unix timestamp.
    – 4uk4
    Commented Nov 30, 2022 at 14:28

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Instantiate a DrupalDateTime object with new DrupalDateTime::createFromTimestamp.

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  • Is there not a more elegant way? How can I leverage Timestamp::getDateTime()? More generally, given a field item, how do you get the typed data item for one of its properties?
    – joachim
    Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 15:03
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    Use the method get(), see drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/305408/…
    – 4uk4
    Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 13:45

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