Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading to internal DateTime

2008-12-05 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Lester Caine wrote: First question. Why are there two different formats for dates with date creation using one format and everything else using strftime formatting? Don't understand what you mean by this. ( Slipping a date through DateTime and returning it DATE_W3C seems

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading to internal DateTime

2008-12-05 Thread Karsten Dambekalns
Hi Derick. Derick Rethans wrote: This is not the correct thing to do, as you will lose timezone information. The W3C format only stores UTC offsets (in the form of +00:00). However, that same UTC offset can be used in different areas with different DST changes. Best thing is to store in Unix

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading to internal DateTime

2008-12-05 Thread Robin Burchell
A unix timestamp is in UTC, offsets are stored and applied seperately. See tzset(3). Unless someone has misconfigured their system, that is. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Karsten Dambekalns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Derick. Derick Rethans wrote: This is not the correct thing to do, as

RE: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading to internal DateTime

2008-12-05 Thread Jared Williams
-Original Message- From: Lester Caine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 December 2008 06:24 To: internals@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading to internal DateTime OK I spent yesterday working trough some of the idiosyncrasies of DateTime and having had a sleep I've

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading to internal DateTime

2008-12-05 Thread Jochem Maas
hi Derick, Derick Rethans schreef: On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Lester Caine wrote: ... Second question. What is the current situation on translating dates? I've tried several ways of using setlocale, but at present I've not been able to get anything other than English out of the code.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading to internal DateTime

2008-12-05 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Jochem Maas wrote: vrijdag, 05 december 2008 Fri, December 2008 having to use ?php (int)$d-format(U) ? seems wrong, having something like ?php $d-getTimeStamp() ? would seem better. Am I missing something? or is there actually a limitation in DateTime that

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading to internal DateTime

2008-12-05 Thread Lester Caine
Derick Rethans wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Lester Caine wrote: First question. Why are there two different formats for dates with date creation using one format and everything else using strftime formatting? Don't understand what you mean by this.

[PHP-DEV] Implode() FR and Patch

2008-12-05 Thread Igor Feghali
Hello There, I would like to propose a third argument to implode(), named skip_empty, that will cause empty elements to be ignored when generating the implode string. By empty I mean everything that converts to an empty string such as '', false, null, etc. For example: ?php $a =

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading to internal DateTime

2008-12-05 Thread Lester Caine
Derick Rethans wrote: ( Slipping a date through DateTime and returning it DATE_W3C seems to be adding the correct daylight saving details so far and allowing ADOdb date to work ) This is not the correct thing to do, as you will lose timezone information. The W3C format only stores UTC offsets