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

[Elmar Hinz]

Dimitri Tarassenko schrieb:
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> Elmar, I've been around;))) I do know that they are and why they are
> there, but following your logics why do you think SQL developers
> bothered creating date types at all? Try for example writing a select
> statement to pick Tuesdays out of integers containing unix timestamps,
> and you'll end up converting them to date types anyway. ADOdb is there
> precisely to smooth all the troubles with date formats.
> 

You want to store also the weekdays into the DB, although they could be
evaluated from the date? Hmm, interesting idear for a quicker search. But
that rather seems to have the character of an automated index to me, than
being a valid part of a normalized date.


Elmar