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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Legal date generated from illegal date
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

On 13/02/15 04:03, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> I see controversial behavior here, unserialize raises error while new
> DateTime('0000-00-00') doesn't.
> 
> If it's a bug, I'll just file it as a bug.

Yasuo
Management of dates is controversial in a lot more areas than just using
the wrong calendar in prior times ;)
Each database uses it's own way to handle dates and time internally, and
most default actions are different, add to which using second as the
base for dates is just wrong anyway, but we have to live with what is
currently available.
The area that needs fixing first is the underlying OS functions rather
than continually trying to patch the top level, but we perhaps need to
document better just where the joins are ... just how many days were
there from 0BC to today ...

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