[development] no date / time types in schema API

Ashraf Amayreh mistknight at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 11:04:46 UTC 2008


Maybe what you want is strtotime?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:59 PM, augustin (beginner) <
drupal.beginner at wechange.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 July 2008 18:36:15 Damien wrote:
> > A solution based on timestamps is much more elegant: timestamps need no
> > (database-specific) parsing whatsoever (both on reading and writing to
> the
> > database), they play nice with arithmetic (and thus do not need any
> helper
> > functions), and are consistent with the implementation of most
> application,
> > including Drupal.
>
> How do you use a timestamp when you need the date 18 Aug 1908 on a date
> field???
>
> Augustin.
>
>
>


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Ashraf Amayreh
http://blogs.aamayreh.org
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