Re: RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:20:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime | ||
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On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, Andrew Faulds wrote:
> On 02/09/12 21:50, Derick Rethans wrote:
> > Yes, I am saying that ISO8601 is lossy - and that is something that
> > shouldn't be the default format.
> >
> Lossy of what? Local timezone?
>
> ISO 8601 is the single unambiguously ordered (no mm-dd/dd-mm
> confusion), international standard, machine-readable (default in
> ECMAScript, for instance) date/time format.
>
> I see no reason not to use it. Date/time should be UTC anyway when
> debugging.
Yeah, I understand you don't see a reason. That's what scares me. For
debugging I definetely wouldn't want to have my datetimes mangled to
just show UTC. I wouldn't even be able to see the difference between 4pm
London and 5pm Amsterdam time!
cheers,
Derick