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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:36:34 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] date/timezone classes
From: pierre@dotgeek.org (Pierre-Alain Joye)

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:31:14 +0200 (CEST)
Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Edin Kadribasic wrote:
> 
> > I would love to be able to do something like this:
> > 
> > $d = new Date(time());
> > $d->month++;
> > $d->print("Y-m-d"); // date() equiv.
> 
> Adding methods is no problem, that's what you get for free
> anyway, I just think that $d->month is too much magic, and not
> reproducable in non OO. (Also, passing a timestamp with time() is
> not always working, because of windows' limitations with it,
> that's the reason why I made it a string, or empty in case you
> want to use current time).

for the current time, it's fine. For example getting the next
monday is pretty easy using this way.

Properties are not magic. Thier behiavors have to be well
documented. And how they work discussed.

I talked a bit with Derick on IRC. I will take some times to
finalize the specifications and put them online. We can then have a
document to talk about. Not like I like to talk endlessly but there
is issues we have to agree on before any implementation. Expect it
over the weekend.

Regards,

--Pierre