Re: RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:36:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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hi Will,
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Will Fitch <willfitch@php.net> wrote:
> I would like to officially introduce an RFC with a patch to implement
> __toString to DateTime. This is a commonly requested feature that goes
> unanswered mostly because of the inability to agree on a default pattern.
>
> In short, the patch uses the ISO-8601 format as the default pattern. The
> pattern may be changed via setDefaultPattern and date_default_pattern_set,
> as explained in the RFC.
>
> The link to the RFC and patch are here:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/datetime_tostring.
>
> While I know this isn't as interesting as many of the current proposals
> going on, I'm hoping you can give this RFC a look.
It would be better to name the format method setDefaultFormat instead
of setDefaultPattern, to be consistent with the rest of the API.
(not saying I like the idea or not, only a 1st comment :)
Cheers,
--
Pierre
@pierrejoye