On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > From the fine manual [1]: > l (lowercase 'L') > A full textual representation of the day of the week > > I can never remember this one, and I use it occasionally. What is the > mnemonic for "l"? How did this letter come to be chosen? Can anyone > more creative than me think of a way to associate the lower case > letter "l" with the full textual representation of the day of the > week? > > Thanks! > > > [1] http://il2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php > > -- > Dotan Cohen
Hi, I've been wondering where the letter was chosen from too, so I took svn and got all the way back to revision 214 where the options was first added. Note that this commit is June 7, 1996, and we're talking about php2 (php/fi) here. I tried to look at mailing list archives, but it seems that rasmus was pretty much developing PHP on it's own in those days. It seems that it has been added when cookie support was added, and for the cookie to set a date they wanted a nicely printed day. It seems to be just a choice from rasmus back in those days. My best guess would be that the 'l' is chosen because it is the last letter of 'full' in 'full name of day', though I don't understand why 'f' or 'F' wasn't chosen. Well, try remembering the 'l' in 'full' if you need it the next time..;) - Matijn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
