[development] no date / time types in schema API

[David Timothy Strauss]

----- "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???

You use the UNIX timestamp at 00:00 UTC that day.