Re: Military <-> Standard times

tedd schreef: > Hi gang: would you stop calling me that, I'll bet it means something rude in korean. :-P > What's the slickest way to go from "standard" to military times and back > again? wouldn't the slickest way be to carry/store unixtimestamps and then output whatever version you need when you need it, the conversion back and forth *seems* pointless. > > Such as: > > 0800 -> 8:00am > 8:00am -> 0800 > > -- or -- > > 1600 -> 4:00pm > 4:00pm -> 1600 > > I use the following functions, but is there anything better? > > function standardToMilitary($t) > { > $t = strftime('%R', strtotime($t)); > return $t; what's with the superfluous variable? why not just: return strftime('%R', strtotime($t)); also, small point, if you came across the function militaryToStandard() somewhere in the code, how would one know if it were all about about time formats or elephants? > } > > function militaryToStandard($t) > { > $t = strftime('%r', strtotime($t)); > return $t; > } > > Thanks, > > tedd PS - I think the best ever name for a Exception class is 'Tantrum': throw new Tantrum('Ra Ra Ra Aaaargh');