On 27 April 2019 13:51:11 BST, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: >On 27/04/2019 13:37, Rowan Collins wrote: >> The only way I've seen dates stored as integers is as a number of >> seconds / milliseconds / whatever since some epoch, most commonly >> seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC > >Use of a days count rather than a seconds count makes dates a lot >easier >to work with. 2 32bit numbers give a substantial day count along with >either fractional time of day or alternatively a second count for the >day.
That makes sense, but it's still a variant on the epoch + count concept, not year-month-day as in Bishop's example. As such, it still wouldn't particularly benefit from separators; you'd probably write constants in string form and convert them on the fly, or have durations which were multiples of 7 or 365 rather than powers of 10 or 16. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
