2009/8/17 tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> > At 4:22 PM -0400 8/16/09, Paul M Foster wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 08:36:17AM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: >> -snip- >> > But as has been said, the real solution is a date picker. >> >> I *hate* date pickers. They slow down input. I can type 082309<Enter> >> faster than I can ever do it with a date picker. The date class knows >> I'm in America and since it's a six-digit date, it must be mmddyy. (Yes, >> for those of you *not* in America, I agree our dates are goofy. I think >> we all ought to be on the metic system, too, but America and the UK seem >> intent on sticking to Imperial measure.) >> >> Paul >> > > > Paul: > > Yes, that's part of the problem. I was suggesting an exercise where people > could put their collective heads together and create a php solution. > > I realize that US has DD, MM, YYYY and the Euros have YYYY, MM, DD and > others have other things (i.e., Year of the York). > > Not addressing the "other things" -- to me, if one uses a character for a > month, then there's no problem in deciphering any entry regardless of > format. > > For example, 2009 Aug 23, or Aug 23 2009, or Aug 2009 23, or 23 2009 Aug, > -- they could all be entered in whatever order you want and deciphered > correctly. The rules of course are: > > Year must be in thousands -- 1000-5000. > Month must be a character -- D for December, May for May, Jun for June and > so on. > Day must be in ones or tens -- 1 or 09, or 31. > > It's certainly not a problem to write such code, I only suggested the > exercise to get people to expound on the problems they encountered. Instead, > I received "use javascript". Okay... but that's not a php solution, right? > > Cheers, > > tedd > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > What would be really cool is if someone wrote a PHP script that generates some Javascript code that could do this. I mean while we're on the subject of complicating things ;) -- Luke Slater :O) this text is protected by international copyright. it is illegal for anybody apart from the recipient to keep a copy of this text. dieser text wird von internationalem urheberrecht geschuetzt. allen ausser dem/der empfaenger/-in ist untersagt, eine kopie dieses textes zu behalten.
