From 8aa6ad1c5de5eb5473139a2b8ecc15d37b891544 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Bjelkholm <victor@bjelkholm.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:02:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow date to be DateTime object

---
 src/Valitron/Validator.php      | 8 +++++++-
 tests/Valitron/ValidateTest.php | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Valitron/Validator.php b/src/Valitron/Validator.php
index 13bff59..0a96bf2 100644
--- a/src/Valitron/Validator.php
+++ b/src/Valitron/Validator.php
@@ -495,7 +495,13 @@ class Validator
      */
     protected function validateDate($field, $value)
     {
-        return strtotime($value) !== false;
+        $isDate = false;
+        if($value instanceof \DateTime) {
+            $isDate = true;
+        } else {
+            $isDate = strtotime($value) !== false;
+        }
+        return $isDate;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/tests/Valitron/ValidateTest.php b/tests/Valitron/ValidateTest.php
index 4d2c2c6..d1ae011 100644
--- a/tests/Valitron/ValidateTest.php
+++ b/tests/Valitron/ValidateTest.php
@@ -413,6 +413,13 @@ class ValidateTest extends BaseTestCase
         $this->assertTrue($v->validate());
     }
 
+    public function testDateValidWithDateTimeObject()
+    {
+        $v = new Validator(array('date' => new DateTime()));
+        $v->rule('date', 'date');
+        $this->assertTrue($v->validate());
+    }
+
     public function testDateInvalid()
     {
         $v = new Validator(array('date' => 'no thanks'));