"Jason Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Saturday 06 March 2004 16:17, Shaun wrote: > > [snip] > > > Ryan, I may be getting out of my league here, but if the makers of PHP > > didn't care about us here in the UK then why was this function created: > > gmmktime(); > > What has *that* got to do with UK users? The fact is that for historical > reasons all timezones are based off GMT (or UTC). Thus any kind of 'portable' > timekeeping will have to be based off UTC. For instance the mail that you're > reading will have it's Date: header expressed with reference to UTC. In short > having functions that help convert local time to and from UTC is a good > thing. Don't kid yourself into thinking that gmmktime() is there for UK > users' sake :-) > > > I know reposting like this is wrong but I was just trying to make a point. > > Which is? In most cases reposting at such a short time interval will only > annoy a lot people. > > -- > Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz > Open Source Software Systems Integrators > * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * > ------------------------------------------ > Search the list archives before you post > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general > ------------------------------------------ > /* > The probability of an auto lockout varies directly with the intensity of the > rain > -- Murphy's Laws of Locksmithing n11 > */
I think its fairly obvious I am not an advanced PHP programmer. That's why I said I may be getting out of my league! I guess the point I was trying to make was that I didn't want to continue the previous thread. I can see this is a contentious issue, I wont do it again :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
