Re: RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime

On Sep 2, 2012 4:39 PM, "Andrew Faulds" <ajf@ajf.me> 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. I think the issue on most minds is the TZ aspect. I agree with the others on using UTC. I also think ill suggest a different approach to this. >> >> cheers, >> Derick > > > > -- > Andrew Faulds > http://ajf.me/ >