On 28.06.2021 at 16:25, Nikita Popov wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 1:04 AM Rowan Tommins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 18/06/2021 22:16, Derick Rethans wrote: >>> strftime is infected by thread unsafe locales, which is plenty of reason >> to deprecate it, with additional pro reasons for doing so being its >> disparate functionality among different os-es and libc's. >>> >>> Deprecation also doesn't mean removal, which won't happen until PHP 9, >> giving developers plenty of time to move to a saner threadsafe locale API >> based on intl/icu. >> >> >> I think you're probably right, but I think in general deprecations >> should be accompanied by much stronger migration instructions than >> "there's a class over here that probably does what you want if you kick >> it a bit". >> >> Like everything in ext/intl, IntlDateFormatter is rather complex, and >> the manual relies heavily on links to the ICU documentation, some of >> which are 404s. If you're saying my 276 uses of strftime() are "wrong", >> it would be nice to have a clear message of what is "right", and what I >> should do to "fix" them. >> > > Yeah, I definitely see the concern here. In my corpus, most uses of > strftime() are actually locale-independent and can be easily replaced by > DateTime::format(). I guess these are only being used because calling > strftime() is slightly more compact than calling DateTime::format(), which > requires creating a DateTime object first. A small handful use a locale > sensitive format, which would require IntlDateFormatter and its more > complex API.
You could just call date(). :) > I believe the equivalent for %B would be something like this: > https://3v4l.org/1pNDi I think that would be %b. For %B you have to use "MMMM". > It doesn't help that the IntlDateFormatter API is > un-great and doesn't allow you to directly create a formatter for a pattern > without passing a number of irrelevant arguments. ACK. > Regards, > Nikita > > PS: I found this scary comment in the strftime() docs: > https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php#104043 48 upvotes. d'oh Christoph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
