Re: RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:45:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, Andrew Faulds wrote:
> On 02/09/12 18:20, Derick Rethans wrote:
> >
> > No it's not unambigious:
> >
> > $ php -r 'date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London"); echo
> > date_create()->format(DateTime::ISO8601), "\n";'
> > 2012-09-02T18:17:36+0100
> >
> > $ php -r 'date_default_timezone_set("Africa/Niamey"); echo
> > date_create()->format(DateTime::ISO8601), "\n";'
> > 2012-09-02T18:19:05+0100
> >
> > vs:
> >
> > $ php -r 'date_default_timezone_set("Africa/Niamey"); echo
> > date_create("2012-12-31")->format(DateTime::ISO8601), "\n";'
> > 2012-12-31T00:00:00+0100
> > ^^^^^
> >
> > $ php -r 'date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London"); echo
> > date_create("2012-12-31")->format(DateTime::ISO8601), "\n";'
> > 2012-12-31T00:00:00+0000
> > ^^^^^
> I'm a little confused as to what is going on here, but ISO8601 has a UTC
> format, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.
Yes, and that format is ambigious like I just illustrated.
cheers,
Derick