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To: "Jason Garber" <jason@ionzoft.com>,
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 18:10:17 +1200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Date Support
From: jevon@jevon.org ("Jevon Wright")

I always wished that PHP had VB's set of operators on dates/times... (and
also in SQL): year(), month(), date(), time_serial(), and the like. Yes, you
can do it with date("...", $x); but then it's just awkward to remember all
the operators.

Also, I'd always wished that PHP would have support for dates after 32 bit
(2037)... when do you think Pecl's Date would get into PHP?

Jevon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Garber" <jason@ionzoft.com>
To: <internals@lists.php.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 2:36 PM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Date Support


> 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.
>
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