On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Ofer Nave wrote: > run in epoch mode, and not even pay attention to hour. Just like it > wouldn't pay attention to billybob if I passed it ( epoch => time(), billbob > => 'thornton' ).
Uh, have you tried that? It'll throw an exception. I'm a big believer in dying on bad input, since if the user passes a billybob parameter they probably expect that to have some effect. > > If you start assuming a single argument is a particular parameter, > > which do you go with in other cases. If you change one > > method, you have > > to be consistent. > > $dt = DateTime->new( 34 ); > > Is that 00:00:34 or 00:34:00 or 0034-00-00? > > Well, since year is the only required argument, you'd probably assume it was > year, and therefore the date would be 0034-00-00 00:00:00.0! :) But that's > probably a habit to encourage/allow. Nor is it even particularly useful, I'd think. > Yes, I know, but the idea is to make it convenient to do the most common > things (which is why ymd() and hms() are, in fact, available), and it seems > to be like a combined ymd_hms would qualify that list. Especially being the > ISO8601 standard time format, and that you often want to print both date and > time. Thus the datetime/iso8601 methods (they're the same method internally). -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
