[TYPO3-dev] Time issues - a proposal

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> Hi Masi!
> 
>> And I want a new option to store all timestamps in UTC/GMT. Therefor 
>> t3lib_div gets two new functions.
> 
> Fine with me too with condition that you keep local time as default 
> option (for compatibility reasons).

That's why we have the $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VAR']['SYS']['useUTC'] switch.

> 
> What about shorter versions:
> 
> function getTime()    {
>    return ($GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VAR']['SYS']['useUTC'] ? gmtime() : 
> time());
> }
> function makeTime()    {
>    $func = ($GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VAR']['SYS']['useUTC'] ? 'gmmktime' : 
> 'mktime');
>    return call_user_func_array($func, func_get_args());
> }

IMHO purely cosmetic. Are trigraphs faster in executing?

Masi