Re: silinging warnings?

Hi Lukas, That's why I wrote this, to handle negative timestamps. http://php.weblogs.com/adodb_date_time_library Feel free to use/improve. Regards, John "Lukas Smith" <smith@backendmedia.com> wrote in message news:002101c33d5d$2d4e39a0$4e00a8c0@vandal... > Hi, > > I have a question about MDB_Date that might result in a standard we may > want to set: > > MDB_Date is a very simple class to help people convert their timestamps > from and to the MDB timestamp format (which essentially is an ISO date). > > Due to its simple nature it uses something like the following to convert > form a unix timestamp to an MDB timestamp: > function unix2Mdbstamp($unix_timestamp) > { > return date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $unix_timestamp); > } > > This can lead to odd results if the unix timestamp is less than 0. I > want to keep the code as simple as possible, because people can move to > the PEAR::Date if they need anything more fancy. > > So should I silence the errors that may come up due to the date() call? > Should the users make the necessary checks in his code to prevent > calling with a unix timestamp less than 0? > Again I would prefer not to have to introduce any fancy code to handle > values outside the scope. > > Regards, > Lukas Smith > smith@backendmedia.com > _______________________________ > BackendMedia > www.backendmedia.com > berlin@backendmedia.com > > Linn Zwoch Smith GbR > Pariser Str. 44 > D-10707 Berlin > > Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 > Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07 > >