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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Timezone stuff - conclusion
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

As many as make sense.  But this thread is dead, if all goes well and the 
work Derick has done sorts things out.

Zeev

At 01:18 11/10/2005, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>How many date formatting functions do we need?
>
>-Andrei
>
>Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > I've been away from email for the last couple of weeks - read through the
> > timezone thread, and didn't really see a conclusion.
> >
> > My suggestion is to restore the old code in its entirely, and introduce
> > the
> > new implementation as new functions with a proper prefix, a-la PHP 2005.
> > I
> > think it's better than an INI entry, and it should be fairly
> > straightforward to implement.
> >
> > I don't think anybody is underestimating Derick's efforts towards building
> > this new date functionality.  I certainly don't.  I also don't see any
> > reason to break compatibility in something as basic as this, so this
> > should
> > be introduced either as a new (preferably) or optional (less preferably)
> > feature.
> >
> > Zeev
> >
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