On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Lester Caine wrote:

> Derick Rethans wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Pierre Joye wrote:
> > 
> > > I rather prefer to have this class (and related) within the ext/date
> > > extensions. It is the only way to have a consistent and working
> > > date/time API in php. Date/time formatting is part of this API.
> > 
> > I've mentioned that from the beginning (and started experimenting a 
> > bit with it already as date_format_locale()), but apparently that's 
> > not the "correct" way.
> 
> I think the question here is WHY would you want to format a date 
> without using a date object? SO why is it wrong to have object 
> formatting packaged with the relevant object? I may be missing 
> something here, but if the idea is to standardise then surly we should 
> be standardising and not creating tools for unnecessary alternatives? 
> I'm still having to use my own Date alternative until we can finally 
> draw a line under PHP4 compatibility - so lets not start opening more 
> rabbit holes to compatibility :(

Yeah, exactly what I'm thinking.

regards,
Derick

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