Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11845 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38758 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Aug 2004 03:07:38 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38734 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2004 03:07:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theta.altoona-pa.com) (209.161.72.28) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Aug 2004 03:07:38 -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 B2C0F142A5 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 23:07:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 23:07:49 -0400 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.11.02) Business Reply-To: Jason Garber Organization: IonZoft, Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <487513560.20040802230749@ionzoft.com> To: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <4e89b4260408021941d7f2c29@mail.gmail.com> References: <1697824207.20040802223614@ionzoft.com> <4e89b4260408021941d7f2c29@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Date Support From: jason@ionzoft.com (Jason Garber) Hello Wez, I must be missing something... I went to the link and couldn't find any documentation. I downloaded it and all the .tgz contained were a couple of .php scripts? -- Best regards, Jason mailto:jason@ionzoft.com Monday, August 2, 2004, 10:41:09 PM, you wrote: WF> http://pecl.php.net/package-info.php?package=Date WF> It's not in the core because it is still relatively young. WF> Maybe in a future release... WF> --Wez. WF> 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 >> >>