Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11839 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 51098 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Aug 2004 02:36:02 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 51072 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2004 02:36:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theta.altoona-pa.com) (209.161.72.28) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Aug 2004 02:36:02 -0000 Received: from IONZOFT-JEG (dpvc-207-68-114-163.alt.east.verizon.net [207.68.114.163]) by theta.altoona-pa.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E0614261 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 22:36:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 22:36:14 -0400 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.11.02) Business Reply-To: Jason Garber Organization: IonZoft, Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1697824207.20040802223614@ionzoft.com> To: internals@lists.php.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Date Support From: jason@ionzoft.com (Jason Garber) Hello internals, Not to take away from the wonderful and lively "GOTO" discussion, but... I've got a couple simple questions. 1. Is there a particular reason that PHP does not have a really good set of functions for dealing with true date and time types (i.e. not timestamps)? 2. I think that good date and time handling in PHP would be a large plus. MySQL provides, imho, a very effective set of tools for handling dates. I think that this style of date handling, where the standard format was YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS would be an ideal way to go. Comments? 3. If there is no good reason for not adding this set of functions to the PHP core, what would be the method of designing an acceptable set of functions? PHP is a feature packed language, but it's strange that this does not exist in the core. Thanks for your time. -- Best regards, Jason Garber mailto:jason@ionzoft.com IonZoft, Inc.