Re: timezones & date() breakage
| From: | Ron Korving | Date: | Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:01:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: timezones & date() breakage | ||
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> Again and for the record in this thread, I told you and here many
> times, the only safe way is to develop the new features in a separate
> code base (ext/date was planned to be used for this exact purpose
> before you decided to move your code there). A separate code base is
> the only way to keep user codes working. Whether user codes were good
> or bad is not relevant as they worked and there was not valid
> alternative in the PHP releases.
Can't this still be done? Call the new extension "datetime" or something and
keep the old ext/date the way it is. A renaming process shouldn't be too
problematic, right? If I had a say in this (and I don't), I'd say, keep
ext/date and add another, more intelligent date/time extension.
Ron