Re: Date Support
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Tue, 03 Aug 2004 07:32:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Date Support | ||
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On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jason Garber 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)?
I'm about 60% done with this ;-)
> 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?
This is one format that I can parse... but the major format will be a
"timestamp" of some sort.
regards,
Derick