Re: Date Support

Hello John, how does that help? I mean sizeof(double) == 4 == sizeof(int/32). In other words the bitsize is the same. Only you get an exponent. The result is that you loose time information accuracy. regards marcus Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 10:34:18 AM, you wrote: > Hi > There's a library that i wrote that supports timestamps > 2037. > It takes advantage of the fact that PHP converts integers to floats on > overflow. It uses the nearly the same api as date() and mktime(), to make > porting easier. > Regards, John > See http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/adodb_date_library > "Jevon Wright" <jevon@jevon.org> wrote in message > news:011601c47920$8d116ba0$0a00a8c0@home.jevon.org... >> I always wished that PHP had VB's set of operators on dates/times... (and >> also in SQL): year(), month(), date(), time_serial(), and the like. Yes, > you >> can do it with date("...", $x); but then it's just awkward to remember all >> the operators. >> >> Also, I'd always wished that PHP would have support for dates after 32 bit >> (2037)... when do you think Pecl's Date would get into PHP? >> >> Jevon >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jason Garber" <jason@ionzoft.com> >> To: <internals@lists.php.net> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 2:36 PM >> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Date Support >> >> >> > 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 >> > >> > >> -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net