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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, Andrew Faulds wrote:

> On 02/09/12 21:50, Derick Rethans wrote:
> > Yes, I am saying that ISO8601 is lossy - and that is something that
> > shouldn't be the default format.
> > 
> Lossy of what? Local timezone?
> 
> ISO 8601 is the single unambiguously ordered (no mm-dd/dd-mm 
> confusion), international standard, machine-readable (default in 
> ECMAScript, for instance) date/time format.
> 
> I see no reason not to use it. Date/time should be UTC anyway when 
> debugging.

Yeah, I understand you don't see a reason. That's what scares me. For 
debugging I definetely wouldn't want to have my datetimes mangled to 
just show UTC. I wouldn't even be able to see the difference between 4pm 
London and 5pm Amsterdam time!

cheers,
Derick