Hi!
I rather prefer to have this class (and related) within the ext/date extensions. It is the only way to have a consistent and working date/time API in php. Date/time formatting is part of this API.
That'd be kind of hard to do because it uses ICU infrastructure, which would create dependency from ext/date (used by virtually everybody) to ext/intl (used by much less people and requiring ICU library).
As I can understand the need to have one single extension in this phase (or the early stage), it would make sense to think about integrating part of the ICU with the existing PHP extension or features.
We do it in PHP 6. However this extension (ext/intl) need to work with 5.2, and integrating ICU in 5.2 doesn't seem a good idea to me.
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