I am having a very weird problem.

When I run my piece of code, I get an error saying `$carDay->date` is not an object. but when I run it in debug mode, it works fine. So I assume it is kind of a racing condition.

$trip is an object from ORM database (MySQL) and getStart-> is just a getter that gets the starting date in this format "20120929T024754". I convert that string to a date and then do stuff with the date. But like I said when I run it without debugging the date doesn't seem to be converted in time when I want to access it. Does anyone have anyone Idea why or what I can do about it ?

```
 private function calculateIntLate($trip) {
    $carDay = $trip->getStart();
    $carDay_date = $this->convertStringToDateTime($carDay);

    $carDate = $carDay_date->date;
  }

  public function convertStringToDateTime($string) {
    //012345678901234 
    //20120929T024754
    $year = substr($string, 0, 4);
    $month = substr($string, 4, 2);
    $day = substr($string, 6, 2);
    $hour = substr($string, 9, 2);
    $minute = substr($string, 11, 2);
    $second = substr($string, 13, 2);
    $dateTime = new \DateTime($year . '-' . $month . '-' . $day . ' ' . $hour . ':' . $minute . ':' . $second);
    return $dateTime;
  }

```