[TYPO3-dev] It works! Storing non-UNIX dates

[Martin Kutschker]

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
> Martin Kutschker schrieb am 23.06.2006 14:21:
> 
>>> AdoDB time functions are very straightforward [1]. They provide working
>>> replacements for PHP native "unixtime" based time functions:
>> I'd go for Julian dates. The PHP calendar extension can deal with it,
>> but a PHP implementation may be used as a fallback *
>>
>> Julian date are also numbers, but cover AFAIK a much wider range (much
>> before 1900 and I think well beyond 2038).
> 
> I think from 4712 B.C until 4713 A.D. The problem here is that it's not
> compatible with unix timestamps, so current date fields would have to be
> "converted" and functions that calculate on that dates would need to be
> rewritten.

That wasn't my goal. Then of course using unsigned ints are the only 
way. Fine with me as it at least saves the birthday problem now.

Masi