[TYPO3-dev] timestamps and dates before 1970

[Christoph Koehler]

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:40:59 -0600, David Bruehlmeier  
<typo3 at bruehlmeier.com> wrote:

> Hi Christoph,
>
> I brought this up the last time (around November 2004) and sadly it's  
> true that there was never a real consensus on this topic. Back then, I  
> made a summary of the requirements and mailed them to Kasper, but that  
> was it. He did not feel that this was a priority topic and hoped that  
> somebody else might implement it. That has never happened.
>
> You can find it the "historical" results here:
>
> http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/User_talk:Dbruehlmeier
>
> It was my opinion back then that the dates should be stored in the  
> official ISO format, but I'm not sure anymore if this would be the best  
> solution. Probably, using adodb would be better. Negative timestamps are  
> definitely not the solution IMO.

Yeah, I read that thread when I was looking for a solution. Adodb sounds  
good, and that's what I am using right now. There was a class in the  
sr_feuser_register extension.



> However, I still feel strongly that this should be part of the TYPO3  
> core. I'm not a good enough programmer to create a coded proposal for  
> this, but I still hope that - maybe for TYPO3 5.0 - this problem might  
> be solved.


I am not familiar with the core, but the class is already there, so I  
don't know how hard it would be to at least make adodb dates available for  
extension development and then gradually switch over to it.

Christoph