[TYPO3-dev] RFC: Change roadmap for 4.5 and 5.0

[Elmar Hinz]

Dimitri Tarassenko schrieb:
> - tslib_db and DBAL should die and be replaced with ADOdb-based layer.
> Along this way, dates/times in the DB should BE dates and times, not
> Unix timestamps.

When I look at the class name chaos of ADO I wonder if there is no better
alternative. In my eys the classnames of ADO are risky pollution of any
namespace. Not to ask for PEAR standards at all.

Unix timestamps are intergers. They are a standard since the a standard
since the 70s that can't even change. Dates and times in databases could
rather tend out as a point of incompatibility and misanderstandings. If I
only think of all timezone, localization formats, summer/winter time.
Changing UNIX timestamps against something like that is the road to Babylon.


Regards

Elmar