Re: RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:49:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime | ||
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On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, Lester Caine wrote:
> Derick Rethans wrote:
> > > Then ISO8601, please. It's a single, unambiguous Date and Time format.
> > No it's not unambigious:
>
> Derick - is this effect just due to daylight saving differences, or IS it a
> bit more complex than that?
This one illustrated DST issues - but it's very likely going to be more
complex that that...
> Personally I don't want any timezone/offset displayed as I expect it
> to be a UTC time by default on the server, rather than any offset
> time, which is why I'm with you that it should only be changed via
> user space applications.
Yes, and other people expect their timezone in it, and other just local
time and others... my point here being that you can't pick a format that
works for everybody...
cheers,
Derick