Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11841 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 65024 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Aug 2004 02:41:12 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 64796 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2004 02:41:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mproxy.gmail.com) (216.239.56.252) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Aug 2004 02:41:10 -0000 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id u52so13810cwc for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 19:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.11.117.50 with SMTP id p50mr3058cwc; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 19:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4e89b4260408021941d7f2c29@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 03:41:09 +0100 To: Jason Garber Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <1697824207.20040802223614@ionzoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1697824207.20040802223614@ionzoft.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Date Support From: kingwez@gmail.com (Wez Furlong) http://pecl.php.net/package-info.php?package=Date It's not in the core because it is still relatively young. Maybe in a future release... --Wez. On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 22:36:14 -0400, Jason Garber wrote: > 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. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >