| Re: How to loop through the dates? [message #186159 is a reply to message #186144] |
Tue, 17 June 2014 00:44   |
Norman Peelman
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On 06/16/2014 12:19 PM, richard wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:34:19 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:
>
>> In article <1la17b-rhh(dot)ln1(at)luuk(dot)invalid(dot)lan>, Luuk <luuk(at)invalid(dot)lan>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 15-6-2014 21:30, Tim Streater wrote:
>>>> Then for output,
>>>>
>>>> echo date ('M jS, Y', $value);
>>>>
>>>> will output the date in a suitable format.
>>>
>>> only if you live in a country where they put the month first......
>>>
>>> here, where i live, the do day-month-year (15-06-2014)
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>> So do I. But richard appears to assume that his website is only to be
>> seen by Yanks. The string I put above for date is acceptable to me,
>> however, in as much as it leads to an unambiguous date such as:
>>
>> Jun 8th, 2014
>>
>> unlike:
>>
>> 06-08-2014
>>
>> which certainly *is* ambiguous.
>
> As y'all like to kindly point out, "Read the frickin manual!".
> The options allow you to show the date in ANY format you want.
> For my pusposes, I chose that format because the leading numbers will be
> the first to change. Making it easier for the code to spot the changes.
>
As long as MySQL knows it's a proper date, you can do date *things*
with them...
> As I learned to do in BASIC.
> Sometimes, when you have a very long variable name, and only change the
> last character to differenitate two variables, the machine may have
> problems.
> Now if you have the leading character change, no problems.
>
> ThisisoeverylongstringnameA
> ThisisoeverylongstringnameB
>
PHP has no problem telling those apart...
As compared to:
> AThisisoeverylongstringname
> BThisisoeverylongstringname
>
or those for that matter.
> FYI, redcoat, my website that is visible to the public does not use this
> format for dates.
> I use this format ONLY in my tables.
> Kindly note that on my home page, I show the format as
> 16th of June,2014.
>
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Norman
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