Re: Date & TimeZone classes for your consideration

+1 here too Tomas V.V.Cox Baba Buehler wrote: > > I'm working on a largish project and I found myself wanting nice generic > date and timezone classes like those found in Java. Since I was doing most > of the work for myself anyway, I figured I'd flush them out and submit them > for possible inclusion in PEAR. > > The source, a .tar.gz, and PHPDoc for these classes are at: > http://babaz.com/stuff/date/ > > The two classes I have are: > > Date > ---- > Generic date/time handling class. Loosely based on the java.util.Date > class, and using much of Monte Ohrt's excellent Date::Calc class already in > PEAR. Many Date::Calc functions are extended/wrapped to work with Date > objects, including a full implementation of strftime()-like formatting for > Date objects. This class also attempts to be timezone-aware, using the > Date::TimeZone class. > > Date::TimeZone > -------------- > Based on Java's java.util.Timezone, and includes timezone data extracted > from the zoneinfo database. Tracks timezone ids, names, offsets and DST > names. Supports conversions and DST adjustments (although DST stuff > requires setting TZ environment var and using localtime(), so it may not > work on all systems). > > These classes should meet the PEAR coding standards and have proper PHPDoc > comments, but please let me know if I've missed anything. > > The package/classnames I've chosen are what seemed logical to me, though I'm > open to changing them to whatever everyone decides. > > If these look good to everyone, I'll apply for a CVS account, make proper > packages for the web site, etc. > > Let me know what you think. > > Thanks, > baba > > -- > Baba Z Buehler <baba@BabaZ.com> http://BabaZ.com/ PGP > KeyID: 0xA88A6D4C > "Those who are willing to sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither." > -Benjamin Franklin > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php