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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 04:14:02 +0200
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rfc2616 datetime format?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi Stas,

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> It looks like a sub optimal choice to have used string constants
>> instead of integer. However it could be still possible to define new
>> constants as numeric. It is then possible to do whatever needs to be
>> done as post or pre ops for the respective constants.
>
> I'm not sure what integers have to do with it? The constants define date
> formats that are in common use, RFC2616 is one of the commonest on the web
> and we don't have a constant for it...

I mean in ext/date and as a reply to Derick, not your request which is
totally valid. A date time object has the timezone information. If the
constants were integers, it would be very straightforward to do some
operations before calling the formatting functions depending on a
given predefined format. It should still be possible to do it by
testing the string contents (strncmp), but that's not very clean.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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