# Locale-aware date parsing - Thread: https://externals.io/message/12148 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/12148 - Started by Alexander Netkachev on 2004-08-13T10:09:28+00:00 - Messages: 2 - Reply by email to internals@lists.php.net - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt --- ## #12148 — Alexander Netkachev — 2004-08-13T10:09:28+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/12148#12148 Hi! I'm learning the date formatting and parsing functions in PHP and see that there are no locale-aware date parsing function (strptime) that is a pair for strftime. Are there reasons to not implement it? Is a patch welcome? Some info about it is here: http://www.google.com/search?q=strptime and http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strptime.html Thanks, Alex --- ## #12192 — Hartmut Holzgraefe — 2004-08-18T09:37:22+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/12148#12192 · In reply to: #12148 Alexander Netkachev wrote: > Hi! > > I'm learning the date formatting and parsing functions in PHP and see > that there are no locale-aware date parsing function (strptime) that is > a pair for strftime. > Are there reasons to not implement it? Is a patch welcome? Short question: is it available on all our major platforms? > Some info about it is here: http://www.google.com/search?q=strptime > and http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strptime.html I couldn't find it on msdn.microsoft.com so i guess their C library doesn't have it. We've already had problems with Microsofs `strftime()` not supporting all placeholders so i'm against adding it by default. A PECL extension would be fine though. PS: We have talked about including the `strftime()` implementation of the BSD C library into the PHP source to get rid of the platform dependant `strftime()` inconsistencies. Maybe it is about time to re-think this, add `strptime()` to the idea? -- Hartmut Holzgraefe