On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Karen Etheridge <p...@froods.org> wrote: > > Why do DateTime formatters construct objects that don't have the > "formatter" field set by default? It seems to me that this is usually > better than leaving it blank.
Who says that everyone using MySQL wants the MySQL time format? If you want it, that's great. Personally, I don't think DateTime objects should be too concerned with their outputting mechanism -- the idea to me sounds more like having your Model choose its View if you were to relate it to the MVC paradigm. If you had 10 different DT::F's in use, and you serialized all their returns you would get a different display. That sounds kind of awkward. -- Evan Carroll System Lord of the Internets
