Re: Deprecation of the formats DATE_ISO8601 and DATE_RFC7231

On Fri, 19 May 2023, Jorg Sowa wrote: > I would like to propose the deprecation of the constants DATE_ISO8601, > DateTimeInterface::ISO8601 and DateTimeInterface::RFC7231, DATE_RFC7231. … > In my opinion the question is not whether this constant should be > deprecated, but when. I know that the problem was discussed in the past, > but I hope enough time has passed already to touch this topic again > although of the BC nature. [6] > <https://externals.io/message/113657#114885> > [7] In my opinion, deprecating this does not do anything besides annoying users. > > <https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/hnd438/why_isnt_date_iso8601_deprecated/> > Arguments for deprecating DATE_RFC7231: > - error prone nature, the format never really supported timezone. I'm not > sure how it appeared in the code, but tests clearly lack cases for this > format. I'm not sure if it was missed on purpose, but with tests it would > be obvious that the format shouldn't ever appear in the core. [8] > > <https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetimeinterface.php> > [9] > <https://github.com/php/doc-en/pull/2296> This should instead be fixed of being deprecated. It is a recent addition after all. cheers, Derick