# strptime patch - Thread: https://externals.io/message/13035 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/13035 - Started by Sterling Hughes on 2004-09-28T04:13:34+00:00 - Messages: 9 - 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 --- ## #13035 — Sterling Hughes — 2004-09-28T04:13:34+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/13035#13035 hey, i needed `strptime()` for a project i'm working on, its awful handy when you are making dates with `strftime()`. any objections to committing the attached patch? -sterling --- ## #13036 — Sterling Hughes — 2004-09-28T04:15:35+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/13035#13036 · In reply to: #13035 Sterling Hughes wrote: >hey, > >i needed `strptime()` for a project i'm working on, its awful handy when >you are making dates with `strftime()`. any objections to committing >the attached patch? > >-sterling > > > no love for gmail attachments apparently, attached is another effort. -sterling --- ## #13037 — Derick Rethans — 2004-09-28T06:03:46+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/13035#13037 · In reply to: #13036 > no love for gmail attachments apparently, attached is another effort. It meant that gmail didn't make it a text/plain attachment like it should have done ;-) Derick --- ## #13038 — Derick Rethans — 2004-09-28T06:07:55+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/13035#13038 · In reply to: #13036 > Sterling Hughes wrote: > > > […] I think we need another #ifdef for this for the unlikely situation where strptime is not available and strftime is. Derick --- ## #13040 — Marcus Boerger — 2004-09-28T06:36:36+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/13035#13040 · In reply to: #13036 Hello Sterling, the proto is slightly wrong. +/* {{{ proto array strptime(string timestamp, string format) + Parse a time/date generated with `strftime()` into its components */ regards marcus Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 6:15:35 AM, you wrote: > Sterling Hughes wrote: > > […] > no love for gmail attachments apparently, attached is another effort. > -sterling -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net --- ## #13041 — Sterling Hughes — 2004-09-28T07:02:59+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/13035#13041 · In reply to: #13038 they are both in Single UNIX, its pretty reliable in my experience where one is, the other follows. i've only ran into difficulties wrt to what features are available on different OS', do you know a case where strptime isn't avail and strftime is? -sterling On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:07:55 +0200 (CEST), Derick Rethans wrote: > > > > […] > > I think we need another #ifdef for this for the unlikely situation where > strptime is not available and strftime is. > > Derick --- ## #13042 — Derick Rethans — 2004-09-28T07:05:08+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/13035#13042 · In reply to: #13041 > they are both in Single UNIX, its pretty reliable in my experience > where one is, the other follows. i've only ran into difficulties wrt > to what features are available on different OS', do you know a case > where strptime isn't avail and strftime is? Nope, I don't... but it's an very easy check to add, so why not do it to be sure? Derick --- ## #13043 — Wez Furlong — 2004-09-28T07:28:39+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/13035#13043 · In reply to: #13041 *cough* windows *cough* probably doesn't have strptime (not that you'd care ;-)) It's also probably a good idea to add the check for the wierdo unix flavours, just to be safe. --Wez. On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:02:59 -0700, Sterling Hughes wrote: > they are both in Single UNIX, its pretty reliable in my experience > where one is, the other follows. i've only ran into difficulties wrt > to what features are available on different OS', do you know a case > where strptime isn't avail and strftime is? > > -sterling > > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:07:55 +0200 (CEST), Derick Rethans > > wrote: > > […] --- ## #13051 — Sterling Hughes — 2004-09-28T16:50:17+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/13035#13051 · In reply to: #13043 > *cough* windows *cough* probably doesn't have strptime (not that you'd care ;-)) > do we still support that platform? who knew? :-P sometimes i often wonder if Zend integrated the Performance Suite into PHP, if we could drop the windows port and let them sell the only commercial version.... then I go back to calling windmills names. > It's also probably a good idea to add the check for the wierdo unix > flavours, just to be safe. > yeah, fair enough. its easy to add anyway. assume its in my patch. any other issues? -Sterling