RE: [PHP-DEV] Date Support

http://pear.php.net/package/Date/docs/1.4.2/ -----Original Message----- From: Jason Garber [mailto:jason@ionzoft.com] Sent: 03 August 2004 04:08 To: internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Date Support Hello Wez, I must be missing something... I went to the link and couldn't find any documentation. I downloaded it and all the .tgz contained were a couple of .php scripts? -- Best regards, Jason mailto:jason@ionzoft.com Monday, August 2, 2004, 10:41:09 PM, you wrote: WF> http://pecl.php.net/package-info.php?package=Date WF> It's not in the core because it is still relatively young. Maybe in WF> a future release... WF> --Wez. WF> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 22:36:14 -0400, Jason Garber <jason@ionzoft.com> WF> wrote: >> Hello internals, >> >> Not to take away from the wonderful and lively "GOTO" discussion, >> but... I've got a couple simple questions. >> >> 1. Is there a particular reason that PHP does not have a really good >> set of functions for dealing with true date and time types (i.e. not >> timestamps)? >> >> 2. I think that good date and time handling in PHP would be a >> large plus. MySQL provides, imho, a very effective set of tools for >> handling dates. I think that this style of date handling, where the >> standard format was YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS would be an ideal way to go. >> Comments? >> >> 3. If there is no good reason for not adding this set of functions >> to the PHP core, what would be the method of designing an acceptable >> set of functions? >> >> PHP is a feature packed language, but it's strange that this does not >> exist in the core. Thanks for your time. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Jason Garber mailto:jason@ionzoft.com >> IonZoft, Inc. >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php