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Subject: Upgrading to internal DateTime
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

OK I spent yesterday working trough some of the idiosyncrasies of 
DateTime and having had a sleep I've finished off this morning.

First question.
Why are there two different formats for dates with date creation using 
one format and everything else using strftime formatting?
( Slipping a date through DateTime and returning it DATE_W3C seems to be 
adding the correct daylight saving details so far and allowing ADOdb 
date to work )

Second question.
What is the current situation on translating dates? I've tried several 
ways of using setlocale, but at present I've not been able to get 
anything other than English out of the code.

Third question
In order to get things working I've ended up with 
date_default_timezone_set() and haven't needed to use DateTimeZone at 
all ( other than to get a list for the user to select from ). Internally 
we are working UTC normalized, and then displaying with the user offset 
if they select 'local'. IS the correct thing to be setting the default 
for each user? I suspect yes since previous code has always had to fight 
the server time setting changing things.

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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