On Wednesday 02 January 2008 18:28, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Tobias Schlitt wrote: > > On 12/27/2007 01:47 AM Gunnstein Lye wrote: > > > So if this is relevant to this discussion, please add support for > > > pre-1970 dates in the Date/DateTime datatypes. > > > > The current implementation supports the new (PHP 5.1) DateTime class, > > which is capable of handling negative Unix timestamps and handles these > > even as strings. That means, there is no problem handling any > > imagineable time value, as long as you store your timestamp in the > > database as a large enough integer value or as a string. > > Actually, the date/time support in PHP 5.2 and higher supports 64-bit > signed timestamps, which reach from 290 billion years ago to 290 billion > years in the future - I don't think we'd have a problem with that any > time soon ;-)
You say that now - but just wait, before you know it we will all be immortal floating brains in jars, hooked up to the matrix, pondering what to do when the 64-bit timestamps overflow. And I'll be like "I told you so! Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!" :) -- Gunnstein Lye Systems engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eZ Systems | http://ez.no -- Components mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ez.no/mailman/listinfo/components
