On Fri, 19 May 2023, Jorg Sowa wrote:

> I would like to propose the deprecation of the constants DATE_ISO8601,
> DateTimeInterface::ISO8601 and DateTimeInterface::RFC7231, DATE_RFC7231.

…

> In my opinion the question is not whether this constant should be
> deprecated, but when. I know that the problem was discussed in the past,
> but I hope enough time has passed already to touch this topic again
> although of the BC nature. [6] <https://externals.io/message/113657#114885>
> [7]

In my opinion, deprecating this does not do anything besides annoying 
users.

> <https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/hnd438/why_isnt_date_iso8601_deprecated/>
> Arguments for deprecating DATE_RFC7231:
> - error prone nature, the format never really supported timezone. I'm not
> sure how it appeared in the code, but tests clearly lack cases for this
> format. I'm not sure if it was missed on purpose, but with tests it would
> be obvious that the format shouldn't ever appear in the core. [8]
> <https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetimeinterface.php> [9]
> <https://github.com/php/doc-en/pull/2296>

This should instead be fixed of being deprecated. It is a recent 
addition after all.

cheers,
Derick
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