Re: RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime

hi Will, On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Will Fitch <wfitch@meetme.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Ryan McCue <lists@rotorised.com> wrote: > >> As far as I can tell, there's no standard which uses the Olson database >> to specify the timezone, so we'd have to create one. >> >> What about ISO8601 with the Olson timezone suffixed? >> >> 2012-09-02T18:17:36+0100 (Europe/London) >> 2012-09-02T18:19:05+0100 (Africa/Niamey) >> > > Disagree - The ISO8601 provides a good *string* representation of the > object. If you want every aspect of the entire object, including the > properties which are also objects, serialize it. I don't think you will ever get a consensus on that. The reason is that this case falls in the same fall than the timezone itself (but per instance of an object instead of globally). I'd to suggest to force the definition of a format using the setStringFormat (or whatever will be the name of this function). __toString will then fail if no format has been set, warning and returns NULL (f.e.). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org