phparchitect’s Guide to Date and Time Programming

作者：Derick Rethans
页数：152 pages
出版商：Marco Tabini & Associates, Inc.
出版日期：2009.4
语言：英语
ISBN-10: 0981034500
ISBN-13: 978-0981034508
文件大小：5.1 MiB

内容简介
If your development involves working with dates and times, then this book is a must-have. In this book, Derick Rethans (contributor to PHP’s core date extension and well-known PHP expert) explores in great detail the subtle nuances of working with dates and times. Frequently PHP developers encounter unexpected results that adversely affect their software and web applications. This book will undoubtedly help them tackle those issues.

This book covers a variety of areas including:

history of calendars and time standards, giving the reader a better understanding of how date/time concepts evolved into the way they are today
parsing date/time strings and the potential pitfalls a developer can encounter
timezones, the quirks inherent in them, and how your application can handle these quirks
formatting and representing times and dates correctly and dealing with the DateTime Object
manipulating and working with past, future and recurring dates
obtaining dates when timestamps aren’t available
format specifiers
upgrading the master timezone database
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