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It's not in the core because it is still relatively young. Maybe in a future release... --Wez. On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 22:36:14 -0400, Jason Garber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello internals, > > Not to take away from the wonderful and lively "GOTO" discussion, > but... I've got a couple simple questions. > > 1. Is there a particular reason that PHP does not have a really good > set of functions for dealing with true date and time types (i.e. not > timestamps)? > > 2. I think that good date and time handling in PHP would be a > large plus. MySQL provides, imho, a very effective set of tools for > handling dates. I think that this style of date handling, where the > standard format was YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS would be an ideal way to go. > Comments? > > 3. If there is no good reason for not adding this set of functions > to the PHP core, what would be the method of designing an acceptable > set of functions? > > PHP is a feature packed language, but it's strange that this does not > exist in the core. Thanks for your time. > > -- > Best regards, > Jason Garber mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > IonZoft, Inc. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
