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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Revive Number Format Separator RFC
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 27/04/2019 12:18, Thomas Punt wrote:
> Storing dates in an integer format can be a valid use case if 
> performance is a
> concern. It is far faster and more compact to store and compare 
> integer-based
> dates than using objects for everything.


The only way I've seen dates stored as integers is as a number of 
seconds / milliseconds / whatever since some epoch, most commonly 
seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC


The format Bishop seemed to be suggesting would be absolutely useless 
for anything other than the simplest comparisons: how do you add a day 
to the date-as-number 20190430?


I'm sure there are use cases for this syntax, but the examples in that 
e-mail were poorly chosen.


Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]