On Sunday 21 October 2007, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:06:40 -0500
Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
No matter what I'll end to do... but maybe there is some chance it could be recycled if I've an idea of what are the plans.
We don't use DateTime in Drupal 6 at all, as it's PHP 5.2 only, and
bwaaaa I think today my assembly session blew up my mind. s/PHP/Drupal/
Oops. :-)
Drupal 7 hasn't opened up yet. KarenS would probably be the go-to person on what the date handling plans are for D7.
for DateTime in general, I recommend this page:
http://laughingmeme.org/2007/02/27/looking-at-php5s-datetime-and-datetime zone/
It's a good description of the theory behind how date handling works in PHP 5.2, as well as the pros and cons of the DateTime class signature itself. (Short version: It really needs to be a Value Object, but it isn't, but a Value Object wrapper around it shouldn't be hard.)
Woops and what about the currency/float format party? Is there any plan for that?
thx
Well since I only started talking about it 2 days ago, not that I know of. :-) Really, I was just throwing out an alternative approach to take that would offer more long-term flexibility for currency handling. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson