I would vote for C simply for the fact that I developer on Windows 2000 and
Linux quite a bit and then I upload to either a Linux or Mac OS X box for
testing and serving.
This would mean that my local dev site will work and my testing or live
sites will have problems with this command. Now I am aware of the issue so I
will have to find a workaround for it or in a best case scenario I can
depend on the tool (PHP) to correctly implement the function for me on all
the target platforms. The latter being the preferred method.
Lon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sascha Schumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Zeev Suraski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #8828 Updated: mktime using mday<=0
> Sascha + Everyone,
>
> Thanks for pointing that out ( I should have known better to argue
standards with Sascha: )
> I reviewed the official C99 ANSI/ISO/IEC 9899-1999 and it does make no
mention as to the
> use of mday=0 or the normalization of tm structs as specified in the
proposal that I was citing.
>
> This is not potable, though I have seen many Unix's act this way. So
should we a) just change our
> docs to say something to the effect of "Some UNIX's support mday=0
(Possible list of known os's) , but this is not the defacto
> standard and you should refer to your system docs". b) remove all
references from it
> or c) detect when it doesn't work and emulate the functionality.
>
> I vote for (A), seeing as there is no set standard for this, and there is
no guarantee that the mday=0
> functionality will stay.
>
> What do you guys think?
> -Jason
>
>
> -
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sascha Schumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Jason Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 1:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #8828 Updated: mktime using mday<=0
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Either way though, you are saying that this has not been
> > > excepted into the final C99?
> >
> > Correct. A bit of googling brought up this page where Paul
> > Eggert documents why the proposal is broken.
> >
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/c-time/comment-eggert.html
> >
> > > So should we depend on this being a portable standard yet? I
> > > have used the mday=0 on Solaris, and Linux and have seen it in
> > > the IRIX manpages
> >
> > It is not portable as the Mac OS X case shows. It would be
> > hard to convince a vendor to implement a certain feature, if
> > even the proposal for that feature was rejected by the
> > responsible language committee.
> >
> > - Sascha Experience IRCG
> > http://schumann.cx/ http://schumann.cx/ircg
> >
> >
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