I've completely switched. The support for datetime and also timestamp in mysql is amazing... Writing usable applications witch depend on date functions and also applications witch just shows the time is much easier, instead of reading throught all the freakin' manuals to do small operations and writing line upon line with deprecated??? code, no not exactly , but you catch my drift. On Thursday 26 October 2006 22:40, João Cândido de Souza Neto wrote: > I use always unix timestamp as well, except in birth date. > > ""Marcelo de Moraes Serpa"" <celoserpa@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu na mensagem > news:1e5bcefd0610261336t70495afcx3cc29aac20c57eeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Hello list, > > > > I've always used Unix Timestamps until now, but lately I've reading about > > MySQL's datetime datatype and its benefits (dates before 1970, after > > 2030, SQL functions to deal with them, etc). However, I don't see much > > support for > > them in the PHP API. I'm also a Flash programmer and the Flash 8 API Date > > datatype also only understands unix timestamps. Taking this into account, > > I'm not really sure if it really worths it to "move" to the DATETIME > > datatype. What would you do? Any advice would be much appreciated! > > > > Marcelo. -- --- Børge Kennel Arivene http://www.arivene.net --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
